Lithograph

A Cobbler

Itinerant workers, cobblers can repair all sorts of things. Note the sophisticated lithographic printing of this image, which some early Clifton & Co.

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Asia Butterflies

Symphera Nais. India.
Ixias latifasciata. India and South China.
Zephyrus dums. Sikkim.
4. Eramia pulchella. Assam.

[Original caption] Butterflies and Moths pass through three very distinct stages before they attain the perfect form viz.: 1. The

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Cultivators

It is unclear whether "Haji Yusuf Haji Mohammed. Pictures, Post-cards & Cutlery Merchant.

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Empire of British India and Ceylon [Coins]

A beautiful embossed card showing exchange rates between Indian and European currencies, in those days usually stable for long periods of time.

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The Great Burning Ghat in Benares

[Original German] Der Grosse Verbrennungs Platz in Benares [end]

One of the earliest artist-signed postcards of India.

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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.

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Chandulal's Car, Bolarum, Hyderabad

From an unusual later lithographic series, with some photographs by Raja Deen Dayal, and many of areas like this one around Hyderabad and including events like Lord Curzon's visit in 1903 to the State, it is nonetheless not at all clear that Dayal

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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.

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Opening of the Godaveri Bridge H.E. Lord Curzon's Second Tour in India

This nearly 3 km long bridge, also known as the Havelock Bridge, was opened to traffic in 1900. It has since been decommissioned and is apparently awaiting funding to be turned into a pedestrian bridge.