Greetings from Bombay
From an early "Greetings from" series by D.M. Macropolo & Co., a renowned Raj tobacconist with retail stores in Kolkata and Mumbai.
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Chandulal's Car, Bolarum, Hyderabad
From an unusual later lithographic series, with some photographs by Raja Deen Dayal, and many of areas like this one around Hyderabad and including events like Lord Curzon's visit in 1903 to the State, it is nonetheless not at all clear that Dayal
A Mohamedan dancing Girl in Attitude
This so-called "chromo-collotype" card was created by running an image derived from a black and white photograph through multiple color runs, after each color had dried, creating rich and translucent images.
Calcutta
One of the earliest postcards of India, Calcutta, published by W. Rossler, a German or Austrian photographer in the city in 1897. Lithograph, Court sized, Printed in Austria. Undivided back.
Toda Mund
A very well-reserved color view of a Today village, postmarked to France May 23, 1917.
Jumna Bridge, Allahabad
One of the longest bridges built during the Raj, the original Naini Bridge was opened in 1865. This curious postcard was likely based on a photograph that was then high stylized during production, and while halftone dots are visible in some parts of
The Indian Army - Indian Hairstyle
Note the hookah on the ground, next to the soldier unraveling his turban, a sight for French spectators captured here on a postcard.
[Original caption] L'Armee de l'Inde – La Coiffure de l'Hindou
Hooseinabad, (Bird`s Eye View) Lucknow.
[Original caption] Hooseinabad, (Bird's Eye View) Lucknow. 1,000 yards beyond the Turkish Gate is the Hooseinabad Imambara, and opposite, a beautiful garden, with Clock Tower 220 feet high.
Holwell Monument, Calcutta
[Original caption] Holwell Monument.
The Waterfall, Chakrata
As the postcard business became increasingly competitive, especially after about 1905, printers and publishers went to great lengths with frames and colours to distinguish their products.
