The Little Sick Boy
Evelyn Stuart Hardy (1865-1935), the artist who signed this card, was a British illustrator and author known for her contributions to children's literature and periodicals in the late 19th and early 20th centuries.
India
Monkey Performance
For all the popularity of monkey performers, their depiction on postcards, especially with a crowd watching (example without a crowd) is unusual.
A Hindu Sanyasi
A sanyasi, also spelled sannyasi, refers to a Hindu ascetic or religious renunciant who has given up worldly possessions and attachments to pursue spiritual goals. The word sanyasi has its roots in Sanskrit.
Hide and Seek
Postmarked in Bombay Nov. 19, 1910 and addressed to Miss Louella Shoemaker, Freeport, Illinois, USA: "Bombay, India 11/18-1910. Dear Daughter: Greeting. I thought you would like to see how little girls play 'hide and seek' in India.
A Beauty in the Garden
These real photo was both hand-tinted, and, unusually, golden glitter also applied on the woman's wrap.
Famine relief Work. Digging the big well
While it is unclear where and when this postcard was taken, it could have been in 1899-1900 when there was a large famine in Hyderabad with relief works photographed by Raja Lala Deen Dayal.
Opium Shop
Although opium was a major crop in the rise of the East India Company, and India the major producer of opium sent to China, with production carefully taxed and recorded, barely a handful of postcards seem to acknowledge the crop and its manufacture.
Naseem
Naseem Banu (4 July 1916 – 18 June 2002) was a prominent Indian actress who rose to fame in the 1930s and 1940s.
A Lady in Dandy
While the word "dandy" suggests being fashionable, and may be a secondary meaning, the word is said to actually come from "dandi" or the Hindi/Urdu word for stick, which are used to distribute the woman's weight across them men's shoulders.
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Shankar
Shankar is another name for Lord Shiva, one of the most important deities in Hinduism.
