Collotype

A dance hall in an important railway junction and cantonment made famous in Rudyard Kipling's novel Kim.

The old Town Hall once housed Shimla's municipal offices, library and Gaiety Theatre. This unwieldy Gothic-inspired structure, built in the late 1880s, only lasted until about 1913 when it was dismantled "due to sub-standard material, especially…

The fall Mysuru Dasara celebrates the victory of the Hindu goddess Chamundeshwari (Durga) over the demon Mahishasura, the event from which Mysuru's name [formerly Mysore] is derived.

A striking distinctive portrait, nicely silhouetted at the bottom, with the richness of the collotype making her seem photographic.

Once one of the jewels of Chennai, the People's Park was constructed between 1859-1861 and extended over 112 acres. Today it is apparently largely neglected with much of the land used for other purposes.

"There is possibly no name connected with Simla which to thousands of Anglo-Indians, past and present, can revive more memories of a pleasant nature than that of Annandale." writes Edward Buck, the longtime resident and master chronicler of the…

A wonderfully posed studio shot by Plate & Co., the well-known Colombo postcard publisher and portrait artist.

A very popular Jaipur postcard, with pigeons even occupying the top of the dome on the right.

When the bubonic plague struck Bombay in the 1890s, postcards were used, in part, by the business community to communicate that all was okay, and that patients were being well taken care of in facilities like this one with clean interiors and an…

[Original caption] Damayanti is creeping stealthily to catch the golden Hansa. [end]

In the Mahabharata Hansa, the swan, extolls the virtues of King Nala to her and says "If the peerless wed the peerless—blessed must the union be," in one of the…