Collotype

An unusual angle on the Samadhi of Maharajah Ranjit Singh in Lahore.

[Verso] Postmarked Mount Road, Madras, 17 Sep. 1903 at 11:30 a.m. and addressed to Miss Olive McMillan, St. Augustine's, Cliftonville, Margate, England.

[Recto] "16/9/03 With Many Salaams from Mother."

An early postcard that unlike many of these type cards does focus the eye on the object of interest.

A storybook shot by Fred Bremner, six people poised in performance, reminding us how much children and women's labor keeps the farm going.

A very early postcard of Darjeeling which nicely represents, visually, the colonial project: a sprawling European building dominating lush grounds while tiny workers pluck away at tea leaves under the watchful gaze of a man in a solar topee.

A very simply but effectively hand-tinted card: blue, yellow and a pink hue that connects the babies anklet and mother's right earrings.

An exceptional painterly, abstract postcard. Note the ladder at the top.

Dancers were not named frequently named; unusual too is the purple and white hand-tinting.

Perhaps the most popular of the "Greetings from" postcards from India was this "Salaams from" version by the large Delhi publisher, H.A. Mirza & Sons.

Among the more interesting postcards are those showing Indians abroad, in this case serving as police officers in Hong Kong, then also a British possession.