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 1899

Punjab Rose ca 1908	Singhalese ayah (Nurse Maid) ca 1905	Master Nandram ca 1927
The Huzuri Bagh, Lahore ca 1908	Expecting	Palms, Chepauk, Madras ca 1910
An Indian Actress ca 1908	Lucknow Modjibaman ca 1905	Native Cafe in the Camp 1931
The Tomb of Itmad-ud-Doula. Agra. ca 1911	Music ca 1910	Gwalior Fortress. Colossal Figure 62 Ft. High. ca 1908
Coolie with his Basket ca 1903	A Cobbler ca 1903	The City and the Mosque of Shah - Hamadan, Srinagar (Kashmir) ca 1910
A Jutka, Madras ca 1905	Down in the Mouth ca 1908	Afghan Women in Kerzawahs, Khyber Pass ca 1908
Indian Dancing Girl ca 1910	Juma Masjid, Delhi with a scene of Annual Friday Prayer-Meeting ca 1905	British India Hockey Team 10th Olympiad Los Angeles 1932
Alastor Mystic ca 1925	Miss Chabukswari of Delhi ca 1910	A View of Peshawar Fur market Showing Fur Bales Loaded on Carts for Export to Foreign Countries ca 1920
Historic India. Ravages of White Ants. Beams Eaten Out. ca 1908	D. Billimoria and Sulochana ca 1930	A Water Carrier, Madras ca 1905
Greetings from Jamaica, West Indies ca 1904	Souvenir of Darjeeling Himalaya ca 1900	Tomb of Tippu Sultan ca 1905

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