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.

Sita's Marriage	Shoe Maker ca 1905	The Grand Orient Hotel, Colombo ca 1910
Lahore. The Golden Mosque. ca 1905	Raja Sandow ca 1930	Madras, Temple at Tirvalur ca 1905
Chetty Rice Merchant and Money Lender. Ceylon ca 1907	Types of Men (I) ca 1910	Bombay Police ca 1907
Sardar Bhagat Singh ca 1931	A Mountebank ca 1905	In the Mosque of Machii-Kaman 1898
Watching the Pageant, Delhi ca 1908	Result of an Intrusion ca 1900	Hindoo Ayahs ca 1900
Sudder Bazaar, Peshawar 1910	Hajee Ismail Saits New Sawmill, Kolar Gold Fields ca 1901	A Jaipur Sardar ca 1905
Mohamedan Marriage ca 1905	at Mutta, Mohmand Field Force ca 1908	A Toda House, Its Master and Mistress. ca 1905
Rickshaw Mussoorie. Dandy Mussoorie. ca 1905	A Buddhist Priest, Ceylon ca 1908	Road Rolling ca 1930
Jeypore. The Chowk and Hawa Mahal ca 1905	Ganges Pagoda ca 1897	The Staff College Quetta ca 1910
The Central Model School, Lahore ca 1908	Bombay Native Bazaar ca 1905	Watchers Trans-Border Type ca 1915

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