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Addressed to Miss Alice Grimes, Elysee Palace Hotel, Paris, France and postmarked Nov. 3, 1903 Mashobra Cant.:

A lone cart contemplates entering the Khyber Pass on this early color postcard; nearly as daunting is the white space awaiting the sender's message.

Founded in 1861, this Roman Catholic-run school is one of the oldest in Karachi. Its alumni include leading political leaders like Pervez Musharraf, former President of Pakistan, Zulfikar Ali Bhutto's father, Sir Shahnawaz Bhutto, and Lal Krishna…

Scenes of Indian troops washing were witnessed by French inhabitants, especially women who often found the soldiers attractive.

A very early "Greetings from" postcard composed of no less than five different images, including one of the "Divinity Dance by Lamas" in the bottom left panel.

Better known as the Jhalra natural water tank adjacent to the tomb of the 13th century Sufi Khawaja Moinuddin Chishti. Hundreds of thousands of people come here each year for the urs (the anniversary of the death) of a Sufi saint.

A rare postcard of one of the oldest and largest cities in southern Punjab. Note the telephone wires floating just above the stalls.

Among the earliest postcards of British Baluchistan, whose capital Quetta was leased from the Khan of Kalat in the 19th century. Bremner was one of the earliest photographers in the cantonment, having come out in the 1890s from Scotland.

Among the few postcards that depict industrial activity, this jute facility was possibly in the French colony of Pondicherry, now the Federal Union Territory of Puducherry.

An early view of what is now The Asiatic Society. John Murray's Handbook for Travelers in India Burma and Ceylon (1938) has this description of what was once the Town Hall: