Collotype

This early and rare double-view "Greetings from" postcard was made for the Royal Sussex Regiment, then stationed in both Peshawar and (presumably during the winter) in Cherat hillstation. The frames around both images are embossed.

A woman balancing water pots on her head is a common site across the Indian subcontinent. Woman who supplied water to households in the desert city of Jaipur were often called "water maids." Dressed in traditional colorful Rajasthani attire, these…

Moplahs are the Muslim descendants of Arab traders who married local women and settled along the Malabar coast over the centuries.

Bangalore is well-known for sprawling shopping malls, although in British times it was largely a cantonment town and only recently has become an information technology hub and one of the cities most prominently linked to the outsourcing of Western…

The mausoleum of the great Sikh ruler of Punjab, Maharajah Ranjit Singh. Built by his son Karak Singh and completed by Duleep Singh under British rule, this is where Ranjit Singh was cremated in 1839.

An early multi-view collotype of Madras, with five separate photographs, in a decorative flower frame.

A Central Asian trader who made his way down the slippery, winding routes of the Hindu Kush, Karakoram and Himalayan ranges into Kashmir's valleys.

The Residency, called "one of the prettiest official residencies in India" by the Imperial Gazetteer of India (1908) was where the British Chief Commissioner of British Baluchistan lived.

Jadu Kissen was a photographer associated for a time with the Archaeological Survey of India and operated out of Srinagar and Delhi; his distinctive postcards were hand-tinted and their captions could be as long as his main competitor in Delhi, H.A.…

Every person in this literate Hindu caste of administrators in Hyderabad, Sindh is wearing at least one Western article of clothing.