Prayer in Juma Masjid, Delhi
This is a superbly hand-tinted postcard, with both swathes of color (pink and blue) and individual color specs in the crowd mixed with the black ink of the collotype enhancing the effect of a real crowd praying.
This is a superbly hand-tinted postcard, with both swathes of color (pink and blue) and individual color specs in the crowd mixed with the black ink of the collotype enhancing the effect of a real crowd praying.
An Austrian cyanotype (blue-dyed) postcard, where imprinted on the back before the name is "Wohlgeboren Herrn/Frau" which literally means "well born" or "of good birth," which translates into English as "Honorable" or "Esquire." THe honorific was
This silk postcard has this message on the back "Dear Amy I hope you will keep the card as a souvenir of Rawalpindi and read mark learn and inwardly digest the reading Your with love Bill."
A thickly embossed and framed postcard, a treatment that seems to be more prevalent among hillstation postcards.
Yerwada jail was originally built outside the city limits of Pune in 1871 by the British, but over time, as Pune expanded, Yerwada became integrated into the city, making the prison more centrally located within the urban area.
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.
The Cordite Factory in Aruvankadu, India, is a significant defense establishment with a rich history and important role in India's ordnance production.
[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.
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.
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.