Silversmith
Looking at this collection of craftsmen and spare surroundings of the workshop, one realizes how much of the fine silver work from Kashmir was a matter of manual labor and skills.
Real Photo
Indians at Ashford
A candid image of Indian troops in Ashurst, Hampshire, England unpacking their kit most likely before being sent to the war front in Europe during World War I.
La Guerre French - Front
A very nicely stamped postcard, with the upside down figure, symbol of France, if the the "language" of stamp positioning holds in this case, asking "Do you remember me?"
The photograph is also exceptional, with its details of the men's kits, the
The Mall Murree
One of those postcards that illustrates the elasticity of time. The protagonist in the foreground is blurry because of the long exposure, perhaps a second or two, that the photographer required for the shot.
The Motor Stand, Murree Hill
Motor travel made accessing hill stations much easier; note the the 1920s eras car and smaller buses in this image on the road from Rawalpindi to Murree (the transportation company advertised on the sign is the "Simla Motor Service"). The trip into
Rabindranath Tagore
A curiously hand-tinted sepia real photo postcard of the great Bengali writer and multi-faceted artist (1861-1941), with pink expertly applied on the inside garment peeking out from below.
Camp Dakka In The Late Afghan War 1919
The Third Afghan War between May and August 1919 followed the end of World War I.
Camel Transport Khebar [Khyber] Pass
![Camel Transport Khebar [Khyber] Pass](https://www.paperjewels.org/sites/default/files/styles/square_thumbnail/public/slides/camel-transport-khebar-pass.jpg?itok=OGNIVw-O "Camel Transport Khebar [Khyber] Pass")
Postcards of camels transporting goods were common from the Northwest Frontier Province [now Khyber Pakhtunkhwa], as in this postcard by Holmes, and Sindh, this one probably an amateur real photo postcard from 1929.
Shri Shiv Panchaitan
A real-photo postcard, made from a painting and printed in Germany, then exquisitely hand-tinted in India.
Ahmed din Buildings Rawalpindi
A real-photo postcard printed the wrong way around. By the late teens it was becoming more common for publishers to print postcards on photographic paper the size and with the backing of postcards; this was possibly commissioned by Ahmed Din.
