Welcome to Paper Jewels

Paper Jewels is postcards from the Raj (1892-1947) restored professionally and free to use. It grew out of the book Paper Jewels Postcards from the Raj (Mapin/Alkazi, 2018) by Omar Khan and associated exhibitions. Get a new Raj postcard everyday here, on Instagram and Facebook.

ca 1910

The Pontoon Bridge on the Hooghly. Calcutta. ca 1905	Martund Temple, Kashmir ca 1903	A Marwari Woman ca 1905
Interior of Taj, Agra ca 1905	Famous Nautch Girl ca 1907	Lahore. Golden Mosque. ca 1905
A Table Servant ca 1908	Temple at Ramnagar, Benares ca 1905	A Kashmir Woman ca 1903
Coromandel Coaster (India) 19th Century ca 1910	Plucking Tea, Dambatenne Estate, Ceylon ca 1910	Jain Temple Calcutta. ca 1907
A Pahari Woman ca 1908	A Village Belle, Kashmir ca 1905	Parsi Tower of Silence ca
Rice Grinding [handwritten] ca 1905	A Water Carrier, Central Provinces India. ca 1908	Gwalior, Sas Bhao Temple ca 1903
Jemadar Mir Dast, V.C., I.O.M. ca 1915	Ram and Tulsidas Meeting ca 1928	General View Shah Masjid and Ranjit Singh Samad, Lahore (India) ca 1908
Bombay - Smoking Room, The Taj Mahal Hotel ca 1904	Gandhi ca 1948	A Persian Gypsy Woman and Her Children ca 1908
Greetings from Darjeeling ca 1899	Punjab Rose ca 1908	Singhalese ayah (Nurse Maid) ca 1905
Master Nandram ca 1927	The Huzuri Bagh, Lahore ca 1908	Expecting

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