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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.


The Gorgeous East - A Viceregal Party
ca 1903
Bengalee Babu
ca 1904
His Majesty's Indian Army
ca 1907
Continental Pneumatic Carriage Tyres
ca 1905
The Coolest Place in the House.
ca 1905
The Burning Ghat, Benares
ca 1905
A Money Lender
ca 1905
Sudder Bazaar, Karachi
ca 1910
A Parsee Lady
ca 1903
Lord Clive Boldly and Sincerely
ca 1900
Chunglagali (Murree Hills)
ca 1905
Calcutta
ca 1899
Head of Tamil Girl
ca 1905
A Camel with rider and gun. Jaipur
ca 1905
Champavati
ca 1904
The Taj, (From Across The River) Agra
ca 1908
Bombay. Apollo Bunder.
ca 1908
Sorting Jute
ca 1908
Group of Baland Khels
ca 1907
Rangoon Jail - Prisoners carrying out their breakfast
ca 1905
Lahore Chief Court
ca 1908
Our Clerical Staff Babu City Clerk
ca 1905
Taj Mahal Hotel, Bombay
ca 1908
The Jakku Temple, Simla
ca 1910
Lala Lajpatrai Ji (Sher-i-Punjab)
ca 1930
Shakuntala Patra-Lekhana
ca 1905
Bengal Beauty
ca 1910
Parsi Athletes
ca 1908
A Hill Coolie Girl
ca 1903
Sind Water Carriers
ca 1908

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