Lithograph

Itinerant workers, cobblers can repair all sorts of things. Note the sophisticated lithographic printing of this image, which some early Clifton & Co. images seem to have used, and which would have required numerous passes of the image through stone…

1. Symphera Nais. India.
2. Ixias latifasciata. India and South China.
3. Zephyrus dums. Sikkim.
4. 4. Eramia pulchella. Assam.

Mail Carrier and Guard, Oudeypore, India.

It is unclear whether "Haji Yusuf Haji Mohammed. Pictures, Post-cards & Cutlery Merchant. Grant Road Cross-Lane, Bombay, 7," blind stamped on the back of one of these cards, is actually the publisher or just a retailer of this very distinctive…

A beautiful embossed card showing exchange rates between Indian and European currencies, in those days usually stable for long periods of time.

[Original German] Der Grosse Verbrennungs Platz in Benares [end]

One of the earliest artist-signed postcards of India.

From an early "Greetings from" series by D.M. Macropolo & Co., a renowned Raj tobacconist with retail stores in Kolkata and Mumbai.

From an unusual later lithographic series, with some photographs by Raja Deen Dayal, and many of areas like this one around Hyderabad and including events like Lord Curzon's visit in 1903 to the State, it is nonetheless not at all clear that Dayal…

One of the earliest postcards of India, Calcutta, published by W. Rossler, a German or Austrian photographer in the city in 1897. Lithograph, Court sized, Printed in Austria. Undivided back.