The garden in front of the Victoria Memorial is sometimes still called Curzon Gardens.
Lord Curzon was the Viceroy of India from 1899 to 1905. He constructed Victoria Memorial in memory of Queen Victoria, the British monarch who died in 1901 after
From an early "Greetings from" series by D.M. Macropolo & Co., a renowned Raj tobacconist with retail stores in Kolkata and Mumbai.
One of the earliest postcards of India, Calcutta, published by W. Rossler, a German or Austrian photographer in the city in 1897. Lithograph, Court sized, Printed in Austria. Undivided back.
There are many such postcard views, trying to celebrate in a humorous way, life for colonists during the British Raj.
Compare to the black and white version.
David Mordecai (1909-1973) was a prominent Indian photographer and postcard publisher based in Calcutta during the mid-20th century.
A striking studio portrait in which the viewer's eyes are drawn by to subject's wide-open gaze. Was he asked not to blink? Or did the photographer amend the negative?
One can imagine that the textiles worn by the woman are vibrant with color, and the postcard could be spectacular hand-tinted, but the stripes still make for a billowing effect in black and white.
Opened in 1886 by the Murree Brewery Company, the brewery was destroyed in the Quetta Earthquake of 1935 and never rebuilt (the Murree Brewery Company continues to flourish in Pakistan).
Handwritten on the back of this card, no.
The River Teesta descends from Sikkim at an elevation of over 20,000 feet through Darjeeling and then merges with the Brahmaputra in Bangladesh . This postcard is a good example of how a collotype, well-tinted and with a glossy finish can almost look
