Ships

There were many kinds of "Greetings from India" postcards in the early days of postcards. This elaborate one, with an embossed border, conveying the greetings beneath a handshake, and crest of the Sherwood Foresters (Nottinghamshire and Derbyshire…

[Original caption] Bombay from Harbour. Bombay is without doubt a prosperous city. The houses are large, hand some and well built–the gardens well laid out and cared for, while the streets are clean and orderly.

An advertising card for one of the big London-based steam-ship travel firms who served the travel-between-India and Europe market.

The India docks in the German port city of Hamburg, from where an increasing amount of goods, even postcards, were flowing back and forth at the turn of the century.

11,400 tons, 16,000 Horse-Power, at the Anchorage, Bombay.

This postcard gives some sense of the size of the freighters sailing between Europe and India in the early 20th century.