Lithograph

A satirical postcard showing a "Baboo," which Hobson-Jobson defined as used in Kolkata "with a slight savour of disparagement, as characterizing a superficially cultivated, but too often effeminate, Bengali," pulling ahead on the most modern of…

A Singer Manufacturing Co. advertising card made in connection with the World Columbia Exhibition in 1893.

A small advertising card for Chocolat Antoine, a chocolate firm in Brussels, Belgium, celebrating the far reach of the postal services – the uniformed deliverer, stamp and village woman watching in muted awe.

An early Exposition postcard by a German exotic people's promoter. The handwritten message, dated Dec.

President, 17th Congress, Calcutta 1901

Celebrating one of the many Parsee businessmen who supported the Independence struggle and founded the Indian National Congress Party.

A clever postcard by master artist M.V. Dhurandhar showing the modernization of fashion among women in his hometown of Bombay.

Technically an informational postcard, this sumptuous lithograph nonetheless expresses the confusion in Europe about Asia: the design elements around the view of the Kailash Temple in Ellora are Chinese, and the French text locates it a few hundred…

An early advertising postcard for the Hall Line, which was bought by the larger Ellerman Lines in 1903 (the firm lasted under this name until 2004).

An early advertising postcard that makes you wonder if it is really India that is being shown, or perhaps an Arab scene?

An early postcard and theme of Bombay artists, the fisher woman, with a basket of fish on her head. A fishing vessel is in the background, its mast at an angle which adds energy to her pose.