Collotype

Compare to the halftone color version of the same photograph.

A storied building, still standing, which was everything from a Governor's residence to Admiralty House and the first High Court of Bombay.

Note how this advertisement for family life in the cantonment shows a woman and pram on the verandah.

A very nicely composed collotype, with the road leading the eye into the dense scene from the foreground.

A very early postcard of fakirs or sadhus, usually shown individually in close-up. Combridge & Co. was a bookseller that published many early postcards, in this case in the blue tint that was sometimes called a cyanotype and was briefly popular…

A variety of Adivasi people (as well as officials and a soldier in the center) as part of a rich forest surrounding. Hobson-Jobson (1906) gave this definition

One of the most ancient of occupations, showing in the background what must be the larger human ecosystem that depends on the potter's labor.

A later "Greetings from" postcard printed by premiere British publisher Beagles on behalf of a Rawalpindi-based publisher who would have sold this to British troops in cantonments like Rawalpindi, in this case members of the Royal Garrison Artillery…

"The Indian experiences in France were the most extensive and, by and large, the happiest. The Indian soldiers arrived in Marseiles on September 26, 1914 to a heroes' welcome, with their own musicians playing the "Marseillaise".

A nicely-composed Bremner photograph at a sacred site in Kashmir, with the priest holding a rosary and reading on a diagonal closed at the bottom left of the vignette.