Greetings from India Ahmedabad Delhi
This postcard is from the German Gruss Aus (Greetings from) tradition important to birth of postcards.
Greetings from
Greetings from Bombay
From an early "Greetings from" series by D.M. Macropolo & Co., a renowned Raj tobacconist with retail stores in Kolkata and Mumbai.
Calcutta
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.
Greetings from Madras [Message]
![Greetings from Madras [Message]](https://www.paperjewels.org/sites/default/files/styles/square_thumbnail/public/slides/greetings-from-madras-wiele-klein.jpg?itok=VPBE9a0x "Greetings from Madras [Message]")
This particular card was mailed to France from Chennai on Dec. 25, 1900. Note the entire message is readable, but from what is seems to say:
[Unclear first word] "Happy new year, Mr. Francis. Really it is not cold here. Antoine."
[Original French,
Greetings from Madras
A very early "Greetings from"postcard. Note how the top two images are also prefixed with a "View of" as part of the title. See the version with a message in French.
Greetings from Carl Hagenbeck's India 1898
A rare and exceptional early color postcard by Carl Hagenbeck, the German circus and exotic people's promoter whose fairs throughout continental Europe drew large audiences.
Views of Bangalore
On the back [verso] of this card is written: "The building in the centre is the last one of which my father was the architect. C.J.V.
India, Bombay-Calcutta
An early "Greetings from" concept card, printed in Italy, possibly to market train service between Mumbai and Kolkata, rife with tropes that Europeans would have associated with India: a tiger (stalking the train?
Mt. Everest, Greetings from Darjeeling
A very early postcard of Mt. Everest, possibly the earliest.
Sent to Jerome Steinback, 341–11th St., Portland, Oregon, U.S.A. and postmarked Feb. 14, 1902 in Darjeeling. [Recto] "2/13/02 Our greetings to you from the most beautiful spot in India –
Greetings from India
This early postcard was published by the "Bazaar for the Suffering Child," a missionary group in Germany for domestic consumption and draws our attention to two features of early European postcards.
