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The River Teesta descends from Sikkim at an elevation of over 20,000 feet through Darjeeling and then merges with the Brahmaputra in Bangladesh .

An extremely rare postcard from India where stamps have been cut and pasted on the domes of the mosque.

A stunning example of what a well-tinted, non-discoloured postcard looks like some 120 years later.

Sir Pratab Singh (1845-1922) made it on to many postcards as one of the best known Indian officers in the British Indian army, having served from the…

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

These Gurkha soldiers were possibly photographed in the firm's Darjeeling studio (opened 1890) or Simla a few years later.

One could argue that the bhistee was the most common male postcard type at the turn of the 20th century.

A very well-reserved color view of a Today village, postmarked to France May 23, 1917.

Postmarked Rawalpindi on November 27, 1907 and addressed to Mrs. A.A. Frears [sp?], WInthrop Arc., New Haven, Connecticut, U.S.A.: "Rawalpindi, Nov. 26 A very Merry Xmas & Happy New Year to you all.– Lovingly, C.B. Porter."

Note the hookah on the ground, next to the soldier unraveling his turban, a sight for French spectators captured here on a postcard.

[Original caption] L'Armee de l'Inde – La Coiffure de l'Hindou

Attock Fort from the Frontier side during what would have been high flood in the early 20th century.