Indian workers were brought over by the British to the West Indian island of Jamaica between 1845 and 1917. Roughly 37,000 people were brought over under an indentured labor system, where they had to work on mostly sugar estates, where strict
The Indian Pavilion at the 1924 British Empire Exhibition (Wembley) was designed as a major “showpiece” building in an Indo‑Saracenic/Mughal-revival idiom, explicitly modelled on iconic North Indian monuments (often described as drawing on the Jama
[Original caption on front, shown here] "The blow that was hurled at us this afternoon was a nail in the coffin of the British Empire. Nobody who has seen it is ever likely to forget it. It has sunk deep into our own soul.
A muleteer in World War I was a mule driver/handler employed by an army’s transport services to move supplies (and sometimes evacuate wounded) using pack mules, especially where roads were poor and wheeled vehicles couldn’t operate.
Clifton & Co. published many studio-posed, ethnographic type postcards like this one, made from an albumen print with the firm's title and name inscribed in the negative and visible at the bottom of the frame on this court-sized card.
[Verso, in pencil] "You think your job is bad?" [end]
Postmarked Calcutta January 12, 1912 and sent to Ed Froehmer [sp?], Seward, Nebraska, USA.
[Verso] "Calcutta, India January 1012. This is the way that an Indian mother carries her child."
Postmarked May 7, 1904, Sea Post Office, Mumbai. Addressed to “Miss. R. Kennedy, Viewmont Drive, Gilshochill, Mary Hill, Glasgow, Scotland.”
“Dear Ruby, when I see you I shall be able to explain this p.c. [postcard] to you. With my love, John [sp?]”
Stormed during the Second Relief of Lucknow, inside the gateway thousands of people were killed in what is sometimes termed a mass killing by British troops, but on this postcard is celebrated as a battle triumph.
The Moti Masjid inside Agra Fort was a private royal mosque commissioned by the Mughal emperor Shah Jahan and built in the mid-17th century, using white marble that gave it the “pearl” name.
