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Country Boats in Buckingham Canal, Madras

A nice, moody use of sepia, much like another water-themed postcard by the firm perhaps taken at the same time, Palms, Chepauk.

Shopping on the Dal Lake

A self-published, artist-signed postcard of an Impressionist sensibility by Miss Barnes of Madras [Chennai].

Gardens on the Dahl Lake, Kashmir

Fred Bremner was one of the first postcard publishers of Kashmir, offering numerous cards of the Princely State based on photographs he tool there around 1900.

View of River Hooghly Showing the High Court, Calcutta

A very uncommon and early view of the High Court, constructed in 1872, for the oldest High Court in British India.

South Mall and Lake Naini-Tal

Gangi Sah was one of the first postcard publishers from Nainital, if not the earliest.

A postcard printed in Great Britain, but with the unusual electrotype on the back "Post Restante," also known as "Post Restant" which means to hold the item at a post office until it is picked up by a traveler.

City and Third Bridge, Srinagar, Kashmir

Adressed to Miss Diana Penton, c/o Miss Oughton-Giles, St. Mary's, Chislehurst, Kent, England: "We are very busy packing, so I can only find time for a card. Thank you for your lovely long letter written from Auntie Nuleties [sp?]!

Catamaran

Adressed to Miss E. Eraston [sp?] in London, date unclear: "You see hundreds of these things going right out to sea for fishing. E. J. L."

Benares from the River

The two boats in the foreground distinguish this view of Varanasi.

Jagniwas Water Palace Udaipur

The summer palace of the Mewar royal family was constructed in the 1740s Maharana Jagat Singh I. Note the exemplary arrangement ny the photographer of the boats in front, as if part of the palace architecture.