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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 Royal Mosque Lahore (full view)
ca 1910
Army Concentration Camp, Delhi Darbar
ca 1911
Village Scene, Bombay
1905
India North German Lloyd [Indien Nordeutscher Lloyd Bremen]
ca 1899
Jaffna Tamil, Ceylon
ca 1910
Native Soldier
ca 1904
Female Spinning, Jaipur
ca 1905
Galle Face Hotel, Ceylon
ca 1901
Simla. View from Mashobra.
1910
Kashmir beauty
ca 1915
Sind Club
ca 1908
The Ruling Princes of India
ca 1908
University Gardens and Clock Tower, Bombay
ca 1903
Greetings from Napier Cinema, Poona
ca 1916
Hindu Monkey Temple
ca 1903
Pratapgarh, where Shiwoji killed Afzulkhan
ca 1904
A Mendicant
ca 1908
Nungumbakum Bridge
ca 1908
Native Barber
ca 1899
Nestle's Swiss Milk 20th Punjab Infantry
ca 1900
Office Peon
ca 1908
Clark's Hotel Benares
ca 1908
India
1892
Dreams in Stone, Temple of Halebid, Mysore State.
ca 1908
[Rajah on Carpet]
1905
Calcutta
1897
The Chief's [Aitchison] College, Lahore
ca 1908
Rumi Darwaza [Gate]
ca 1905
Rajkot City Gate
ca 1905
A Group of Schoolgirls
ca 1905

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