The Paper Jewels Daily Gem

A new Raj (India, Pakistan, Sri Lanka or Myanmar) postcard here, on Instagram and Facebook every 72 hours. Can also be perused as categories. Based on the book Paper Jewels Postcards from the Raj by Omar Khan (Mapin/Alkazi, 2018).

Watch our new Postcard Pearls, brief videos blending old postcards with the locations today. Watch #1 Frere Hall Karachi and #2 Sukkur: Bridge on the Indus.

Bird eye View of the city Delhi ca 1910	Cherat Hill ca 1910	Fisherman, Ceylon ca 1905
Exit of Khyber Pass into Afghanistan ca 1910	Maharajah's College, Mysore ca 1905	Imported Indian Coolies ca 1910
Upper Topa Murree 1910	Calcutta. The Site of the Black Hole. ca 1908	Shish Mahal Fort, Lahore ca 1908
Courtyard of Indian Pavilion 1924	Salutations de Kandy [Greetings from Kandy] ca 1900	Mohamedan Woman ca 1903
Peshawar Fort ca 1908	Lala Lajpat Rai ca 1930	Oodypur. Jagmunda Palace. ca 1908
Type de Muletier Indien ca 1914	Bhowani Peith (Street) Poona. ca 1908	Sinhalese 1900
Lucknow. La Martiniere No. 2. 1910	Street Sweeper ca 1900	Manure Dryers, India ca 1905
Cooly Woman with her child ca 1905	Inoculation against Plague, Bombay. ca 1903	The P.W.D. Office, Lahore ca 1910
Entrance Gate to Secundra Bagh, Lucknow (where 2000 mutineers were killed) ca 1903	Pearl Mosque, Agra 1905	[Ritz Hotel] ca 1960
[Connaught Circle, Delhi] ca 1933	Calcutta. Grand Hotel ca 1925	[Unidentified Camp] ca 1908

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