Female Spinning, Jaipur
A popular Jaipur postcard shows a woman spinning cotton in front of a traditional door.
Divided back
Simla. View from Mashobra.
[Original caption] View from Mashobra. Since the Government of Sir John Lawrence in 1864 Simla has been the summer capital for India.
Kashmir beauty
An unusual coloured collotype by Kashmir's premiere postcard publisher. The pink seems to billow both outward from the frame and upward to the woman's face.
Sind Club
Founded in 1871, an exclusive club for elite members of Pakistani society in the heart of Karachi.
The Ruling Princes of India
A collage which would have been assembled from a variety of photographs, not a single sitting. In the bottom center with the black jacket is the Nawab of Hyderabad, the richest of them all.
Greetings from Napier Cinema, Poona
An interesting postcard from many angles. It is an early advertising card for a cinema in Pune, part of a series published by the proprietor A.C.
A Mendicant
The term mendicant refers to begging or relying on charitable donations, and is most widely used for religious followers or ascetics who rely on charity to survive. Plate & Co.
Nungumbakum Bridge
[Original caption] Numgumbakum Bridge.
Office Peon
The word "peon" owes its origin to the Spanish word which means laborer.
Clark's Hotel Benares
Clark's Hotel seems to have used postcard effectively to promote itself at the turn of the century.
