General Post Office, Calcutta
Sepia postcards were printed in a brown colour instead of black inks, and went in and out of fashion from the early 1900s through the 1940s.
Sepia
Sampling and Weighing Cotton
Mumbai grew from the 1860s through the 1890s largely because of the international cotton trade, which went from exporting cotton to textile manufacturing mills dotting the city.
Dr. Keshav Baliran Hedgewar
A rare postcard of the man who founded the RSS, the Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh, an Indian nationalistic, right-wing Hindu organization that continues to play a prominent role in Indian politics, in 1925 in Nagpur following his disillusionment with
Sudder Bazaar, Rawalpindi
Postmarked [illegible date] Rawalpindi, addressed to Miss. L. Ballinger, Montrose House, 155 Uxbridge Road, Shepherd's Bush, London, England, with this message on the back:
"This place is the same as a Town in England I Remain Your Old Dear Best."
Lord Sinha British Indian Delegate
Satyendra Prasanna Sinha, 1st Baron Sinha (24 March 1863 – 4 March 1928), was a prominent British Indian lawyer and statesman who achieved several notable firsts, including being the first Indian to become Advocate-General of Bengal (1905), first
Mohammedan Boy from East India
One of the few Dutch postcards of Indians, though these portraits often were striking, like this postcard of a Hindu.
Missionary Catechists of Mary Immaculate Mymensingh Hindustan On Tour at the Home of the Garros
Many of the very few postcards of Bangladesh from pre-Partition times are by Catholic missionaries in Mymensingh in particular, here shown incongruously on a bullock cart.
[Original French title] Catechistes Missionnaires de Marie Immaculee -
Prisoner of War Camp 2 Munster in Wunsdorf 1916 Roll Call
Prisoners, many of whom would have been from India, lining up at the German prisoner of war camp in Munster.
Barian Bazaar (Summer)
A quintessential bazaar near an army base next to the hill station of Murree. From an albumen photograph as the inscribed title and photographer's name on the glass plate show.
Shahjahan And His Queen
Mughal Emperors continued to live centuries after their death on postcards, most likely based on oval ivory portraits sold to tourists. The Queen here would have been Mumtaz Mahal, for whom Shah Jahan built the Taj Mahal.
