Royal Air Force (R.A.F.) Karachi Flyby
British Royal Air Force biplanes watched by spectators in Karachi. The R.A.F. frequently used aircraft like these in the northwest on the border with Afghanistan against tribal militias.
Transportation
Victoria Terminus Station, Bombay
[Original caption] Victoria Terminus Station, Bombay. Bombay is by far the most European in appearance of all the cities of India. Extensive lines of tramways pass through the broad streets that are continually lined with splendid buildings.
Marine Drive, Bombay
A nice view that guides the eye up the snaked drive.
This card was postmarked from Bombay on Dec. 11, 1953.
We Often Go Rattling Along In These Rickety "Rickshaws"
Part of a series of calendar and regular postcards by the Kolkata artist Merton Lacey made for US troops in the city supporting the Allied front against Japan and supporting China during World War II.
Main Station, Sukkur
This gem of a railway station was built in 1891.
The Motor Stand, Murree Hill
Motor travel made accessing hill stations much easier; note the the 1920s eras car and smaller buses in this image on the road from Rawalpindi to Murree (the transportation company advertised on the sign is the "Simla Motor Service"). The trip into
Camel Transport Khebar [Khyber] Pass
![Camel Transport Khebar [Khyber] Pass](https://www.paperjewels.org/sites/default/files/styles/square_thumbnail/public/slides/camel-transport-khebar-pass.jpg?itok=OGNIVw-O "Camel Transport Khebar [Khyber] Pass")
Postcards of camels transporting goods were common from the Northwest Frontier Province [now Khyber Pakhtunkhwa], as in this postcard by Holmes, and Sindh, this one probably an amateur real photo postcard from 1929.
Dandy
Although the word "dandy" originally referred to boatmen on the Ganges (Hobson-Jobson, 1906, p.
Baroch Station K.S. Ry. (India)
For a beautiful postcard like this, we might reach for an excerpt by Nirad Chaudhri (1897-1999). Even if written about a different railway station, in East Bengal, it shows how impactful trains were to those in India at the turn of the century.
Europeans Travelling on the Palanquin
A very early postcard most likely drawn by lithographer Paul Gerhardt and printed at The Ravi Varma Press, although this is not certain and is based on its similarity to other signed Gerhardt postcards in its use of leaves and trees and background.
