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.
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Cordite Factory, Aravankudu
The Cordite Factory in Aruvankadu, India, is a significant defense establishment with a rich history and important role in India's ordnance production.
Old Fort, Delhi
[Original caption] Repaired by the Emperor Humayun in 1540 A.D. According to tradition founded by Pandav King, about 1400 B.C. [end]
A postcard which illustrates how intertwined the printing and publishing of postcards could be among firms.
A Mohamedan Woman
This is the same woman in Dancing Girl, apparently photographed at the same time with Lucknow's Chutter Manzil in the background, but here given a blander description.
Greetings from Mhow
There are 14 images in this carefully constructed postcard of a cantonment town in Central India now known as Dr. Ambedkar Nagar (after the first great leader of India's Dalit community). The publisher, K.
[Beegun Songstress of Lucknow]
![[Beegun Songstress of Lucknow]](https://www.paperjewels.org/sites/default/files/styles/square_thumbnail/public/slides/beegun-lucknow-color.jpg?itok=rsZGZMsG "[Beegun Songstress of Lucknow]")
The title comes from a collotype with this title.
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.
Tuck's, Lahore [Envelope]
![Tuck's, Lahore [Envelope]](https://www.paperjewels.org/sites/default/files/styles/square_thumbnail/public/slides/tucks-lahore-envelope.jpg?itok=b73iKZFg "Tuck's, Lahore [Envelope]")
What did a postcard envelope look like? During the early "Golden Age" of postcards, they often came in sets of six, a remnant perhaps of lithographic printing presses where 4 sets of 6 images fit well into the bow that was used to imprint the paper.
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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