Circular Walk Gulmarg Kashmir
Probably printed by Raphael Tuck & Co. in London on behalf of Hartmann, one of the earliest Tuck-printed set of 6 postcards of India, likely all made by the same unknown Aquarelle painter.
Probably printed by Raphael Tuck & Co. in London on behalf of Hartmann, one of the earliest Tuck-printed set of 6 postcards of India, likely all made by the same unknown Aquarelle painter.
The garden in front of the Victoria Memorial is sometimes still called Curzon Gardens.
Lord Curzon was the Viceroy of India from 1899 to 1905. He constructed Victoria Memorial in memory of Queen Victoria, the British monarch who died in 1901 after
Fred Bremner was one of the first postcard publishers of Kashmir, offering numerous cards of the Princely State based on photographs he tool there around 1900.
An early postcard of Kashmir by R. E. Shorter, a little known photographer who would have competed with Fred Bremner as one of the first to publish postcards of the princely state. The white space below the image would have been used for the message.
The pipeline under a 4 kilometer walk between Nathiagali and Ayubia is still a popular, spectacular walk and was apparently first built in 1851 and improved in 1930.
David Mordecai (1909-1973) was a prominent Indian photographer and postcard publisher based in Calcutta during the mid-20th century.
The River Teesta descends from Sikkim at an elevation of over 20,000 feet through Darjeeling and then merges with the Brahmaputra in Bangladesh . This postcard is a good example of how a collotype, well-tinted and with a glossy finish can almost look
[Original caption] Narsingarh–Entrance to Old Fort. Narsingarh is the capital of the state of that name in Central India.
A very well-reserved color view of a Today village, postmarked to France May 23, 1917.
Postmarked Rawalpindi on November 27, 1907 and addressed to Mrs. A.A. Frears [sp?], WInthrop Arc., New Haven, Connecticut, U.S.A.: "Rawalpindi, Nov. 26 A very Merry Xmas & Happy New Year to you all.– Lovingly, C.B. Porter."
This sacred stream lies