The hill station of Mount Abu, formerly part of the Chauhan Kingdom of Rajasthan, was the summer resort of the Rajput rulers. A green oasis in the barren landscape of Rajasthan.
Kolkata is the financial, business and commercial nerve-center of eastern India and capital of West Bengal, and was the first and longest capital of the British Raj in India. On the left is a portion of Government House.
A very popular image, also published in a hand-colored version by D. Macopolo & Co.
Postmarked with no message at the Sea Post Office, likely Bombay May 6, 1905 and sent to Miss Adelaide McConway (sp?), 252 Bishop St., Montreal, Canada.
Among the earliest of Fred Bremner's Kashmir postcards, note how carefully the scene has been composed for what would have been a large format albumen shot during a trip he made about 1903: the man seated below the shed, the donkey cart on the roadā¦
Note the title, which attempts to justify the nude image as some sort of ethnographic study. Unusual for Andree, many of whose images are portrait photographs, are the painted backdrop, which makes you wonder about how much of the photograph is aā¦
The Quwwat ul Islam Mosque located in the Kutab complex is a magnificent ruin, and a very popular tourist location today. This transformation began much earlier.
The āscrew pineā at the Horticultural Gardens in Madras refers to Pandanus species (often Pandanus utilis / Pandanus odorifer), striking monocot trees with spiralling leaves and stiltālike aerial roots that were prized as ornamental and economicā¦
When NWFP [now Khyber Pakhtunkhwa] was created in 1901, a legal framework (NWFP Law and Justice Regulation VII) was enacted to set up judicial institutions for the new province under a Judicial Commissioner, placing the provinceās highest judicialā¦
Cherat hillās position gave commanding views over the Peshawar valley and toward Kohat/Indus, which made it strategically useful as well as climatically attractive to colonists.
