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.

Government House ca 1910	Catamaran ca 1905	Birthday Greetings from India 1943
Rai Mela Ram's Building, Lahore ca 1908	Rabindranath Tagore ca 1928	Delhi. The Cross & Ball Church. ca 1910
Lahore. Wazur [Wazir] Khan's Mosque. ca 1910	Oodypur. Panoramic View from Ambamaba ca 1908	Armee Anglo Indienne - Campement d'Indiens ca 1914
Benares from the River	Dalhousie Bazaar ca 1904	Bridge on the Simla-Kalka Railway, near Kanol ca 1904
Montgomery Hall, Lahore ca 1908	Bridge Leading to Mountain Pass, Chitral ca 1905	Kutub Minar, Delhi 1910
His Majesty The Amir's Visit - Agra Darbar ca 1907	Gateway Cemetery - Bareilly ca 1908	Opening of the Godaveri Bridge H.E. Lord Curzon's Second Tour in India ca 1905
Banjaree Women ca 1903	Srinagar Mohammadan at Prayer ca 1910	Elphinstone Bombay ca 1901
Gold Quartz Crushing Mills, Kolar Gold Fields ca 1901	Coronation review held in June 1911 in London (Murree) ca 1911	The Delhi Gate, Fort Agra 1910
An Indian Road Scene, Putiya, Rajshahi, Bengal ca 1910	A Knife Grinder ca 1903	Knife Grinder ca 1901
General Post Office, Calcutta ca 1902	An Indian Rajah ca 1903	Shah Alum's Tomb, Ahmedabad ca 1905

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