Lithograph

This was a very popular view of what is now MG [Mahatma Gandhi] Road in Secundarabad/Hyderabad. It was named after James Kirkpatrick (1764-1805), the British resident in then Hyderabad State whose marriage to a Muslim noblewoman, Khair-un-Nissa, was…

A rare and exceptional early color postcard by Carl Hagenbeck, the German circus and exotic people's promoter whose fairs throughout continental Europe drew large audiences.

A lithographic card, most likely done by an Indian artist and printed in Britain. Note how nicely the woman is foregrounded from a low angle, with a smaller temple in the background and a swirl of green that helps give life to the portrait.

A very early postcard printed in India, most likely by The Ravi Varma Press and drawn by its chief lithographer Paul Gerhardt.

One of those beautiful embossed lithographic cards the Germans were fond of producing that depicted, probably in actual size, coinage and their equivalencies from different parts of the world.

Postcards actually developed in part from advertising cards. In 1893, the year this card was first distributed in bulk at the World's Columbian Exhibition in Chicago postal regulations started making it easier to send illustrated postcards through…

Among the earliest known postcards of Kolkata, by a local and likely Austrian,photographer. Note the four tiny titles below each vignette for those eager to know.

A very early postcard printed in India (postmarked Dec. 1902 in one instance) by the lithographer W. Cooper. The chance discovery of another photographic postcard shows how a scene like this was composed.

A very early lithographed card by Paul Gerhardt, who ran the lithographic printers at the Ravi Varma Press.

Sent to Miss Ettoi Virmillion, 52 West & South, Salt Lake City, Utah, USA, via San Francisco: [Recto] "Bombay 22 March 1905. Very bare. Will"

A curious card, with the white space in the top corner intended for a written message by the sender before messages were allowed on the backs of postcard after 1905.