In The Khyber
Technically sold as a "Small Series" photography by Randolph Holmes, this candid shot combines sheep, probably a mosque entrance, telegraph and telephone lines.
1930-1939
Toda Temple
This Toda temple still stands and is in use. The photographer's lettering scratched into the negative echoes the camera tilt.
Takht-e-Suleman and River Jhelum
[Verso in ink, no name] "My first mooring place. The mountain in background supplies Srinagar reservoir at Hewan [? Hokar Sar?] - situated at its base. No man or beast may walk upon it.
Midnight
Among the most interesting of postcards to come out before Partition are the hand tinted real photographs printed in Germany from Nanumal Riayatmal of Sukkur in Sindh.
The Mall Murree
One of those postcards that illustrates the elasticity of time. The protagonist in the foreground is blurry because of the long exposure, perhaps a second or two, that the photographer required for the shot.
Rabindranath Tagore
A curiously hand-tinted sepia real photo postcard of the great Bengali writer and multi-faceted artist (1861-1941), with pink expertly applied on the inside garment peeking out from below.
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.
Shri Shiv Panchaitan
A real-photo postcard, made from a painting and printed in Germany, then exquisitely hand-tinted in India.
The Cave of Fakir of Api in Arsalkot
Mirza Ali Khan (1901-1960) was a Waziri tribal leader who fought a number of campaigns against the British in the 1930s and 1940s, and later against Pakistan as well in support of an independent Pashtunistan.
Gateway of India, Showing Taj Mahal Hotel, Bombay
A rare Tuck's "Real Photograph" postcard of India, which they seem to have offered in response to the market around the 1930s. The Mexican writer Octavio Paz describes the scene in 1951 when he first approached Bombay by ship:
"An arch of stone
