"Congress Weavers" as handwritten on the back is a rare postcard of the Indian National Congress party's national convention in Karachi held at the end of March 1931, a few days after the execution of Bhaghat Singh.
An early documentary or journalistic postcard. The Kangra earthquake of April 5, 1905, some 200 miles away in northern Punjab, damaged many structures in Lahore, a city of 180,000 and may have caused the fire referenced by this postcard.
[Verso] Postmarked Trimulgherry, 23 Sept. 1910 (?) and addressed to "Mr. and Mrs. A. Barnes, 67 Frog Road (?), St. Denys, Southhampton, Hanks. England. Dear Both, I hope you and boys are quite well. Thought you would like a card.
No one savaged the British more than their continental rivals, the French and Germans. In this French card, King Edward VII is shown under the word "famine" as the face of a bloated stomach on the figure of India; his tongue, haranguing India seems…
World War I Indian merchant sailors on ships sunk by the German ship S.M.S. Mowe in 1915-1916. Postcards from Germany celebrated victories; note the early version of what seems to be a Pakistan flag, probably a Turkish-related icon designating the…
