General Post Office, Calcutta
This postcard was sent from Calcutta in April 1905 to Mr. H.G. Squier, "Actg. [Acting?] P. M. [Postmaster?], Manila, P.I. [Philippine Islands]": "4/28/05 Leave today overland by rail to Bombay. Lytton [sp?]."
Kolkata
Victoria Memorial, Calcutta. King Edward VII Memorial Arch.
The Victoria Memorial of Kolkata was constructed between 1906 and 1921. Note the fine juxtaposition of the cow grazing and the statue of the horse being ridden by Edward VII above the gateway.
Nirad Chaudhuri describes, in his youth, how the
Greetings from Calcutta
An early composite postcard, made up of 27 separate images stuffed into the outline of the letters.
Calcutta Museum
The Calcutta Museum was founded by a Danish botanist, Nathaniel Wallich, in 1814. It shifted to the present site in the 1870s. The architect of Calcutta Museum was W. L.
Telegraph Office - Calcutta
It is hard to overestimate the importance of the telegraph, introduced in 1840 to the Raj, as this grand edifice dedicated to the new medium and constructed in the 1870s suggests.
Greetings from India
A "Greetings from India" postcard composed of many images, each of which were also separate postcards, within stenciled letters. On the back the owner wrote "What do you think of the square tacks?"
The Jute Industry-stripping the fibre from the cane after steeping.
"Another sign of the transition from the wet to the dry season was to be seen in the immense number of jute-stem stacks standing on every field and lawn," wrote Nirad Chaudhry in his Autobiography of an Unknown Indian. "After the bark which yields
Calcutta. Government House Throne Room
One of the major settings in Raj history, and one of the few interiors shown in postcards. The former Government House in Kolkata is now the Raj Bhavan, the offical residence of the Governor of West Bengal.
Dharumtalla [Dharmatala] Road, Calcutta
![Dharumtalla [Dharmatala] Road, Calcutta](https://www.paperjewels.org/sites/default/files/styles/square_thumbnail/public/slides/dharumtalla-road_0.jpg?itok=sarlOTGT "Dharumtalla [Dharmatala] Road, Calcutta")
Dharmatala (Dharumtalla) Road, now Lenin Sarani in central Kolkata, is one of the busiest thoroughfares in Kolkata. Its original name means "holy street."
Government House, Calcutta
[Original caption] Government House - Calcutta has been called a City of palaces: Government House is the Palace of the Viceroy.
