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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.

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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.

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Nungumbakum Bridge

[Original caption] Numgumbakum Bridge.

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Office Peon

The word "peon" owes its origin to the Spanish word which means laborer.

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Clark's Hotel Benares

Clark's Hotel seems to have used postcard effectively to promote itself at the turn of the century.

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This 1892 Singer Manufacturing Co. advertising card for its sewing machines is probably the very first postcard of India, even if technically it was an ad card and not meant to be mailed with a stamp and address visible on the back.

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Dreams in Stone, Temple of Halebid, Mysore State.

[Original caption] Dreams in Stone, Temple of Halebid, Mysore State. Two most remarkable temples are here, the smaller of the two, star-shaped with 16-points, had a porch that from base to top was carved with sculptures of the best Indian art.

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The Chief's [Aitchison] College, Lahore

Better known as Aitchison College, the name it was given shortly after the foundation stone of this building was lain in 1886, "Chief's College" still continued to be used long afterwards given that it was originally founded in Ambala as a school for