People

This well-posed image of a fruit and spice store is appropriately shadowed by the iron framed structure behind it.

Sujaan Mukherjee writes of Frank Clinger Scallan's postcards of Calcutta: "The artist may or may not have used photographs as reference, but unlike most photographs that depict churches, public buildings or trams, these drawings recall a city that…

This is a superbly hand-tinted postcard, with both swathes of color (pink and blue) and individual color specs in the crowd mixed with the black ink of the collotype enhancing the effect of a real crowd praying.

There are 14 images in this carefully constructed postcard of a cantonment town in Central India now known as Dr. Ambedkar Nagar (after the first great leader of India's Dalit community).

Mowbray's Road in Madras (now Chennai) was named after George Mowbray, who arrived in Madras in 1771.

Paul Gerhardt made a number of postcards of the people around the Ravi Varma press in Karli, outside Bombay, including the Katkari in Maharashtra.

Motilal Nehru was the father of Jawaharlal Nehru, and a very popular politician during the early struggle for Independence, and twice President of the Indian National Congress.

[Original caption] A Jungle Village. The jungle villages of Ceylon are picturesque in the extreme, and rendered more so by the abundance of tropical verdure.

[Original caption] A well is generally situated in the principal street of a Burmese village. It is surrounded by a wall and crossed by a heavy beam of wood to which pulleys are attached, through which run ropes with hooks at the ends, by means of…

A unusually upturned (emptied) cart with yoke pointing to sky.