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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.


India
1892
A Happy Christmas A Travelling Student and Singer
ca 1910
Bombay. A Street Scene Pydowni Junction
ca 1908
Where the Faithful of Islam Meet
ca 1908
Congress Hall, Franco-British Exhibition, 1908
1908
Marwari
ca 1903
A Fruit Stall, Northern India
ca 1908
Calcutta
1897
The Moti Musjid Agra
1905
Calcutta, Performing Bears
1905
Chenar Bagh, Kashmir
ca 1903
Madras Seven Pagodas
ca 1905
Bird's Eye View of Fort from Taj Mahal Hotel, Bombay
ca 1908
The Shish Mahal (Fort Lahore)
ca 1910
Meerut. Business premises of A. Emmer
ca 1908
Shah Najaf Mosque, Lucknow.
ca 1908
Dancing Girls
ca 1905
Kodaikanal
ca 1903
Bangalore. St. Patrick's Church.
ca 1907
A Morning Obligato
ca 1899
Fort Hari Parbat
ca 1910
Byculla Club, Bombay
ca 1903
The Kulri, Mussoorie
ca 1915
An Indian Well
An Indian Fakir
ca 1904
An Arab Ship, Bombay Harbour
ca 1910
The Narghileh Smoker
ca 1905
Dehra Doon Railway Station
ca 1905
Washing Day Dhobi Washer Woman
ca 1907
Shipping Tea, Colombo
ca 1908

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