Madras Club
The Madras Club is a colonial-era gentlemen’s club in Chennai, founded in 1832 as an exclusive European male preserve and now one of India’s oldest surviving social clubs.
B & W
Maharajah's College, Mysore
Maharaja’s College, Mysore is one of the oldest and most influential centres of higher education in southern India, closely tied to the making of the University of Mysore and to the Wadiyar dynasty’s education policy.
Imported Indian Coolies
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
Courtyard of Indian Pavilion
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
Lala Lajpat Rai
[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.
Type de Muletier Indien
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.
Street Sweeper
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.
Manure Dryers, India
[Verso, in pencil] "You think your job is bad?" [end]
Cooly Woman with her child
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."
Inoculation against Plague, Bombay.
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?]”
