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.

The Postman ca 1910	[Peshawar Bazaar] ca 1938	Shah Jahan's Last View ca 1910
Clive Examining the Enemy's Lines ca 1908	Darjeeling. The Double Loop ca 1908	Nuserwanjee & Co. [Advertising Card] ca 1908
Preaching by Riverside, Chittagong Hill ca 1906	Royal Bombay Yacht Club ca 1908	"Quetta Earthquake" [handwritten] 1935
Roman Catholic Bishops - Rangoon ca 1907	Poplars Avenue in Kashmir ca 1905	Hindu Temple (Monkey Temple) Kalbadevi Road 1907
JRE Hall Line Shipping - Karachi ca 1903	Krishna's Great Dance ca 1908	Mylapore Tank - Madras ca 1908
Serravallo's Tonic ca 1905	Native Constable ca 1908	Indien [India, back] 1911
Indien [India] 1911	Indian soldiers starting for the front ca 1918	Fisher Woman ca 1899
Elphinstone Street, Karachi ca 1903	Lucknow. La Martiniere ca 1908	Postman ca 1910
Eid Mubarak Pyramids ca 1935	Jeypore. An Eastern Cemetery ca 1905	Mt. Everest, Greetings from Darjeeling ca 1901
James Bazaar Street, Secundarabad ca 1905	Dancing Girls, Jaipur ca 1905	Sir J. N. Tata 1910

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