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 1908

A Hill Coolie Girl ca 1903	Sind Water Carriers ca 1908	Calcutta 1897
A young Hindu married couple. ca 1910	Lahore. Char Boorji. ca 1910	Safder Jang Tomb. Delhi. ca 1910
R.A.T.A.R.F.A. Meerutt ca 1910	Udaipur City. View of the palace. ca 1908	Zuhoorun (Nautch-Girl). ca 1908
Lawrence Military Asylum, Sanawar, Kasauli ca 1910	Calcutta. Burmese Pagoda Eden Gardens. ca 1908	Puri, Temple ca 1900
Colombo. Katamaran, Native Fishing Boat ca 1905	A Bhistee [Watercarrier] ca 1908	Native Village Street N.W. Frontier, India ca 1907
Darjeeling. The Bazaar. ca 1910	Calcutta. Snake Charmers. ca 1905	View of Mali Tal. Nainital. ca 1908
Prisoners making Cane Chairs, Yarrowda Jail ca 1910	Lahore. Central Museum. ca 1908	[Afghan Territory Border with British India] ca 1930
Government House, Madras ca 1904	A Punjabi Lady (Before marriage) 1910	Fruit-seller ca 1910
Snake Charmer 1899	The Bailley Guard Gate, Lucknow 1905	Pounding Grain in Kashmir ca 1910
Prince of Wales Wild Boar Bagged in Patiala State 1924	The Fort, Peshawar ca 1908	Kathiawar Prince ca 1905

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