1910-1919

Kandy

Kandy

Elephants Bathing. Queen's Hotel. Temple of the Sacred Tooth.

A multi-image card popular around the turn of the century, where one type of postcard sought to compress as many views of a place into a small space. Murray's Handbook for India, Burma and

Watson's Hotel, Bombay.

Watson's Hotel, Bombay.

Lynne Withey writes in Grand Tours and Cooks Tours (London, 1998), about the growth of the Western tourist trade in the 1890s, that "apart from a few first-class establishments in major cities, most hotels were barely acceptable by Western standards.

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