[Calcutta Harbour on the Hooghly]
![[Calcutta Harbour on the Hooghly]](https://www.paperjewels.org/sites/default/files/styles/square_thumbnail/public/slides/calcutta-old_0.jpg?itok=WWJ-6Vwf "[Calcutta Harbour on the Hooghly]")
An early and rare early photo postcard, made with a photograph pasted on card stock.
Shipping
Lascar
Lascars were sailors, mostly from the subcontinent, serving on European ships that sailed the world and who spoke their own multinational tongue, "Lascari." Throughout the 16th through 19th centuries many landed in Britain and America, with a few
Madras from the Pier
The Madras Port (now called Chennai Port) is more than 125 years old. The construction of this pier was a major step as previously, bringing people and goods to land via boats from large ships was treacherous.
Postmarked 19 Feb [1907] and addressed
India North German Lloyd [Indien Nordeutscher Lloyd Bremen]
![India North German Lloyd [Indien Nordeutscher Lloyd Bremen]](https://www.paperjewels.org/sites/default/files/styles/square_thumbnail/public/slides/india-ship-line_0.jpg?itok=IfmRZ2Ws "India North German Lloyd [Indien Nordeutscher Lloyd Bremen]")
An early shipping line advertising card from Germany, from one of the largest late 19th century shipping firms that only in 1970 was merged into Hamburg America Line to form Hapag-Lloyds.
A Ferry Steam Boat on the River Indus at Mari-Indus
This does not seem like a fancy Indus river steamer. It is after the heyday of the Indus steamer business that actually never really displaced the boatmen's traffic along the Indus and other river systems in Punjab, UP and Sindh.
A View of Grain Shipping Kimari
The wester Raj province of Sindh was part of Bombay Presidency until 1936, a sleepy backwater until an irrigation project along the lower Indus in 1932 started the transformation of Karachi into one of the world's largest cities.
