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circa 1955: Buffalo Bob Smith (third from left) and the clown Clarabelle of the children's television series 'The Howdy Doody Show' kneeling among a group of children of various nationalities. The children are wearing traditional national costumes and are holding balloons. L-R: Alan Dessault (Belgium), Anjum Chatari (Pakistan), Buffalo Bob Smith, Marian Galewicz (Poland) Clarabell, Malalay Osman (Afghanistan), and Alicia, Carman and Fernando Albornoz

circa 1955: Two mullahs, Muslim teachers learned in theology and law, reading the Koran in the courtyard of the Golden Mosque in Lahore, Pakistan

3rd February 1955: Queen Elizabeth II as head of the Commonwealth with the Commonwealth Prime Ministers at Buckingham Palace, London, at the time of the Commonwealth Conference in London. From left to right, Sir G Huggins (South Africa), Mr Mohammed Alim (Pakistan), Mr Robert Menzies (Australia), Mr Charles Swart (South Africa Minister of Justice representing the Prime Minister), Sir Winston Churchill, Mr Sydney Holland (New Zealand), Mr Louis St Laurent (Canada), Pandit Jawaharlal Nehru (India) and Sir John Kotelawala

circa 1955: A family play cards at home in Lahore. 

circa 1955: A woman taking a photograph at the frontier between Pakistan and Afghanistan.

circa 1955: A sepulchral Islamic monument at the Jhelum river, near Mangla, Pakistan.

Pakistan's Premier Mohamed Ali (C), Ali Sastroamidjojo (R) of Indonesia and Jawaharlal Nehru (L) of India attending the Bandung Conference

Sport. Cricket. pic: 17th March 1956. M.C.C. 'A' Tour to Pakistan 1955-1956. The M.C.C. party arrive back at London Airport, with the England party shown, front Donald Carr the captain, (and left-right going up the steps), Howard, H.W.Stephenson, Thomson,

PAKISTAN - MARCH 01: Female students read together in university library, Dacca, East Pakistan

PAKISTAN - MARCH 01: Hostess and guest compare bracelets at tea outside Government House, Dacca, East Pakistan

PAKISTAN - MARCH 01: Shopkeeper folds items while assistant prints patterns onto cloth, Dacca, East Pakistan

UNITED KINGDOM - MAY 04: Mountain Sheep Mascot Of Pakistan Pipe Band At Kensington Palace In London On May 4Th 1955

NEW YORK - OCTOBER 15: Muhammad Ali Bogra, the Prime Minister of Pakistan from 1953 to 1955, trying on a Native American headdress and being interviewed for PERSON TO PERSON.

NEW YORK - OCTOBER 15: Muhammad Ali Bogra, the Prime Minister of Pakistan from 1953 to 1955, being interviewed for PERSON TO PERSON. Image dated October 15, 1954.

The Prime Minister Yousaf of Pakistan, 1955

Part of the refugee shanty town near Karachi in which 800,000 of them live in squalor and dirt, 1955.

Pathan tribesmen, guardians of the Khyber Pass in West Pakistan, purchasing rifles from their own Tribal gun Factories, where the weapons are handmade, 1955.

A busy street in Karachi, Pakistan, circa 1955-1975

The MCC England team for the tour to Pakistan in 1955. This tour was undertaken by a young MCC 'A' team and was designed to assist the growth of cricket in Pakistan. The team was captained by Donald Carr (front row, centre) under the management of Geoffrey Howard (front row, third from right).

Pakistan cricketer Hanif Mohammad, circa 1955

(Original Caption) Asiatic statesmen get together during the recent Colombo Powers meeting. Left to right are Prime Minister U Nu of Burma; Prime Minister Mohammed Ali of Pakistan; Prime Minister Sastroamidjojo of Indonesia; Prime Minister Sir John Kotelawala of Ceylon; and Prime Minister Jawaharlal Nehru of India.

(Original Caption) On Location. Lahore, Pakistan: American film actress Ava Gardner lets herself in for some polite Oriental ogling as she strolls about the Lahore Railroad Station. The actress is in the Pakistan city on location for her latest film, Bhowani Junction.

(Original Caption) Dry Land Sailors. Karachi, Pakistan: Four U.S. Navy men seem to be having a whale of a time as they sail over sand drifts on 'ships of the desert.' At left are Fireman First Class William Harry Greb, of Wilmer, Ala., who's in front, and Seaman First Class Gerald Gregory, of Houston, Tex. At right are Ernest Connie Greely (in front), photographer's mate second class, who's also from Houston, and Apprentice Fireman Anthony Clement Messina, of Meadville, Pa. They are crewmen of the USS Valcour which stopped at Karachi on a five day good will visit.

Chinese Prime Minister Chou En-Lai shakes hands with Pakistan Prime Minister Mohammed Ali at the end of the African-Asian Conference, held in Bandung, Java, Indonesia in April 1955.

Pakistani Border Guards
(Original Caption) Afghans Restive at Khyber Pass. Border guards at Khyber Pass gateway between Afghanistan and Pakistan wait tensely

(Original Caption) The New League for Women's Rights has demanded the Premier Mohammed Ali restore his first wife to the status of First Lady of Pakistan. The 200 members of the league marched through Karachi and presented their demand at the home of the Premier, who is shown above with wife No. 1, Hamide, by whom he has two sons. Ali married wife No. 2, pretty Aliya Saddy, four weeks ago. She is 30; he is 46. The women who demanded that Ali's first wife must be First Lady said: 'All womanhood is ashamed that one woman has wantonly broken another's happy home; Under no circumstances are the women of Pakistan prepared to see Mr. Ali's second wife usurp the position of First Lady.'

(Original Caption) Gift Gun...A Royal Pakistan Artillery sergeant inspects a 105mm Howitzer supplied under the U.S. Military Aid Program. Medium tanks, communication equipment and engineering supplies are among other major items being furnished Pakistan by the U.S. A team of instructors from Ft. Sill, Oklahoma, has been sent to the Pakistan Artillery School at Nowshera to train Pakistan Army officers in the use of the equipment. The officers will pass along the training to Pakistani troops. The veil of super-secrecy surrounding the aid program was lifted recently when newsmen got a look at the Nowshera installation.

Kashmir - 1955, An Uruguayan officer, member of the U.N. Military Observation Group in India and Pakistan, patrolling on horseback along the Kashmir cease-fire line, U.N.,

Kashmir - 1955, Photograph taken on the cease-fire lines, Meeting between Indian and Pakistani officers and members of the U.N. Military Observation Group, U.N., .

Kashmir -1955, U.N. observers. Here, an American lieutenant with a Canadian colonel controlling the position of opposing armies, U.N.,

(AUSTRALIA OUT) Loading gift locomotive engines onto a ship at Pyrmont Sydney on their way to Pakistan on 10 June 1955.

Industrial Development Corp., Ghulam Faraguey (l) after the conclusion of the contract for the construction of a steelworks at Kot Adu; in the background, the directorM.I.Haquani and dr. Paul Hansen

CSUF Foreign Minister 1955-61 in conversation with an officer of 'Khyber Rifles', a Pakistani elite force in the He visited the Khyber Pass as part of a visit to Pakistan.February 1960

Pakistan, population: street scene - the completely veiled woman (Burka) following the husband and child with distance. about 1958

Pashtun of Wasir nation in Waziristan. about 1956

Pashtuns of Wasir nation in Waziristan. about 1956

The first meeting of the 1955 Commonwealth Prime Ministers' Conference at 10 Downing Street in London, 31st January 1955. From left to right (standing) C. R. Swart, the South African Minister of Justice, Muhammad Ali Bogra of Pakistan, Sir John Kotelawala of Ceylon, and Sir Godfrey Huggins of South Rhodesia; (seated) Sidney Holland of New Zealand, Louis St. Laurent of Canada, Sir Winston Churchill of the United Kingdom, Robert Menzies of Australia and Jawaharlal Nehru of India.