General View of Peshawar City
An uncommon shot of Peshawar, showing the density of habitation. In the far left is the Mahabat Khan mosque, built in the 1860s.
Postcard
Shatrunjay Temples
An early postcard of the large complex of Jain temples in Gujarat state. There are nearly 1,000 temples in a complex near Palitana in Bhavnagar district which is about 1,000 years old and receives hundreds of thousands of visitors each year.
Bombay - Great Western Hotel
A storied building, still standing, which was everything from a Governor's residence to Admiralty House and the first High Court of Bombay.
Dancing Girl
One of the earliest postcards of a "dancing girl" printed in India. Nach [or Nautch] women among the most popular subjects of early postcards of India.
Soldiers' Married Quarters, Peshawar
Note how this advertisement for family life in the cantonment shows a woman and pram on the verandah.
The Railway Shed, Lahore
From today's perspective, an unusual subject given the lack of beauty, architectural significance or human type that grace most early postcards.
Kasauli Hill
A very nicely composed collotype, with the road leading the eye into the dense scene from the foreground.
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."
Eid Mubarak
The Bengali writer Nirad Chaudhuri (1897-1999) described the Eid celebrations in his birthplace of Kishorganj, Mymensingh, now in Bangladesh: "Since the Id moves backwards round the year it had no particular association with season and weather as had
Group of Indian Fakirs
A very early postcard of fakirs or sadhus, usually shown individually in close-up. Combridge & Co.
