There are few postcards from Chitral available at the turn of the century, a remote set of mountain valleys that figured in the explorations and struggles around the "Great Game" with Tzarist Russia in the 19th and early 20th centuries.
On January 15, 1907 the Afghan Amir Habibullah Khan visited Agra where he was shown major monuments and received in great style. An early example of a current-affairs postcard, where recent events were quickly memorialized by publishers.
[Recto] "They are called gypsies and live in little straw huts out in the fields. I wrote you once about seeing them. I want to buy a dress to bring home.
Among the earliest postcards of Bombay from a photograph. One can see the title and photographer inscribed at the bottom of the original glass negative, and the hand-tinting is done in large blocks.
Knife grinders are a vanishing craft. Doing this at home before electric knife sharpeners was difficult. Knife grinders would take their sharpening wheels from door to door and take care of the problem.
