Collotype

Postmarked 1912, an example how a creative sender could use stamps to add their own historical touch to a a postcard.

B. Rigold and Bergmann were a London firm (69, Bishopsgate, London, E.C.), apparently established in 1876 that traded with India and China.

An early view of Kolkata by one of its first postcard publishers. The fine detail and texture of the collotype can be seen even in how the individual telephone wires are visible.

A daub of red anchors the eye in this fine composition. Moore Market was opened in 1900, and destroyed by a mysterious fire in 1985, after which the land was repurposed for the Chennai Suburban Railway station.

The bridge at Attock is one of the most important transportation junctions in Pakistan and connects the provinces of Punjab and Khyber Pakhtunkhwa (the former Northwest Frontier Province). Its significance dates to ancient times.

There were many kinds of "Greetings from India" postcards in the early days of postcards. This elaborate one, with an embossed border, conveying the greetings beneath a handshake, and crest of the Sherwood Foresters (Nottinghamshire and Derbyshire…

The post office, a common subject of early postcards. They celebrated the vast network that brought these simple personal objects from one part of the earth to another; the more remote the post office, like this one in the hillstation/cantonment of…

According to the Gazetteer of Simla District (1904), these offices were built in 1900-01 and first used by the Punjab Government in 1902. They would have been the height of modernity around the time the postcard was published.

"I was carried to and from the hall in a primitive conveyance, called a “dandy”; it consists of a bit of canvas, fastened stoutly to an oblong frame of wood, terminating in a short pole at either end," writes Margaretta Catherine Reynolds, author of…

Hanna Pass is about 6 miles from the city of Quetta, capital of Balochistan province, next to Hanna Lake.