[Original handwritten message, verso] "25/11 Dear David, These are the funny old carriages which we see every day in Calcutta. The old lady has been shopping for Christmas."
An fascinating article on the artist behind this postcard, George Darby, by
A card with over-printed Christmas Greetings, hard to find but not unusual.
[Original caption] Wazir Khan's Mosque (Outer Part) Lahore.
Founded in 1900, this club for European and Indian members still operates in its original premises, a fine example of South Bombay's Indo-Sarcenic architecture. Prominent Indian members included Shri Bhulabhai J. Desai, H.H. Prince Aga Khan, H.H.
A unusual two-image postcard, almost the only one from that most prolific of publishers, Moorli Dhur & Sons. It shows two men on their sides, one of whom is smoking an opium pipe. Such scenes are almost never shown in postcards (exception: an opium
One wonders where this photograph was taken, possibly in the Murree hills but it could have been elsewhere too.
The London based publisher F.
Standing in front of the Lahore Museum, this cannon became known as "Bhangian Di Top" (Cannon of the Bhangis) after it was captured by Hari Singh Bhangi and his forces in 1762, one of the Sikh confederacies.
Bimla Kumari was an Indian actress who appeared in films throughout the 1930s, 40s, and 50s and was primarily known as a supporting actress. She may not be as widely remembered as Devika Rani, but she contributed to the early days of Indian cinema.
Kashmiri women are often shown spinning on postcards because this was an important economic activity in the region.
J.D. Gondhalekar (1909-1981) produced a series of at least ten postcards called "Indian Topics" around 1942, among the few Indian-artist signed postcard series from colonial times.
