Malabar Hill, Bombay
While quite distinctive, keyhole views like this one were a brief fad that overtook early postcard publishing and soon disappeared.
Bombay Mumbai
A Mahomadan Huka and Coffee Shop
Maybe it is the hookahs and Arab head dress of the main in the green robe smoking a cigarette, but this seems to be a scene in Bombay bazaar. The electrotype (imprint on the back) matches that of Clifton & Co.
Morning exercise
An early view of golf being played in British India, with both a man and woman playing.
Taboot Procession, Bombay
An early coloured postcard of the annual Muslim Shia procession on the 21st day of the month of Ramadan commemorating the death of Hazrat Ali, the fourth Caliph.
Bombay - Great Western Hotel
A storied building, still standing, which was everything from a Governor's residence to Admiralty House and the first High Court of Bombay.
Dancing Girl
One of the earliest postcards of a "dancing girl" printed in India. Nach [or Nautch] women among the most popular subjects of early postcards of India.
Eid Mubarak
The Bengali writer Nirad Chaudhuri (1897-1999) described the Eid celebrations in his birthplace of Kishorganj, Mymensingh, now in Bangladesh: "Since the Id moves backwards round the year it had no particular association with season and weather as had
Bombay
The Jama Masjid is a mosque in the Kalbadevi neighborhood, near Crawford Market in the South Mumbai region of Mumbai, India.
Mali, the Gardener
A colonial offering, on a rare lithographic card, both obsequious and a caricature of the snotty memsahib.
No Hobson's Choice at Taraporevala's
A clever advertising postcard from what what Bombay's leading bookseller and major postcard publisher at the turn of the century.
