A self-published, artist-signed postcard of an Impressionist sensibility by Miss Barnes of Madras [Chennai]. Painting was a hobby of many British women and men in India, watercolors often found in albums, but few went to the trouble of having their
[Original caption] Clive Street, Calcutta.
At this central location now stands the WAPDA, or Water and Power Development Authority headquarters, one of the modern architectural gems of Lahore.
Rai Mela Ram, a popular socialite and 19th century businessman a major role as contractor in the
Addressed to Miss E. Young, West Worthing, Sussex, England and postmarked Dalhouse, May 23, 1905: "Along the top of the houses on the right runs the road.
![Bara Bazaar. Hyderabad, Dn. [Deccan]](https://www.paperjewels.org/sites/default/files/styles/square_thumbnail/public/slides/bara-bazaar_0.jpg?itok=260YDe5R "Bara Bazaar. Hyderabad, Dn. [Deccan]")
A lovely postcard were the energy flows outwards towards the viewer from the Char Minar, the city's landmark mosque built in 1591.
Gobindram Oodepyram produced a number of hand-tinted, two colour, postcards like this one where the pink, for example, is strategically deployed to lead the eye down the broad avenue.
[Original caption] Street Scene. The city of Jeypore, situated 850 miles north-west of Calcutta, is handsomely and regularly built, and is the most important centre of Rajputana.
[Verso] Published specially for the S.J. Co-operative Society, Karachi Sole Agent for this view throughout India
[Original caption] The Empress Market, the principal market of Karachi, is situated on the Preedy Street in Sadar Bazaar.
![Hornby Road & the Floral Fountain, Bombay [message]](https://www.paperjewels.org/sites/default/files/styles/square_thumbnail/public/slides/hornby-road-bombay.jpg?itok=q84oLAZP "Hornby Road & the Floral Fountain, Bombay [message]")
While the original Tuck's caption can be found here, this one was sent scrawled in purple pencil as if a child's writing but may have been an adult, to Mrs. W.
[Original caption] Bombay, unlike most of the other shipping towns of importance, is not situated upon a river.
