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.

Bose ca 1940	A Boothea Milkman ca 1905	The Government House, Karachi ca 1903
Panwala (Betel Nut Dealer) ca 1907	Postmen of the British Empire: Burmah, India ca 1903	We Often Go Rattling Along In These Rickety "Rickshaws" 1945
Prisoner of War Camp, Zossen-Wunsdorf, Muslims ca 1915	South Mall and Lake Naini-Tal ca 1905	Trifolya Gate palace, Jaipur ca 1907
Gruss aus Carl Hagenbeck's Indien 1898 1898	The Statue, Memorial Well, Cawnpore ca 1905	Main Station, Sukkur ca 1920
Nizam von Hyderabad ca 1897	Temple de Chillambaran ca 1910	Lahore, Chief Court, Punjab. ca 1907
The Marina, Madras ca 1908	Merchants Lane, Ambala. ca 1908	President Jawaharlal Nehru ca 1950
Rawalpindi City ca 1920	Recollections of Darjeeling ca 1903	Punjaub Rose ca 1905
Native Wrestlers ca 1903	Woodstock College for Girls - Mussoorie ca 1920	Silversmith ca 1945
Comrades ca 1914	Takht-e-Suleman and River Jhelum ca 1930	An Indian Well
Shravak Temple, Girnar ca 1903	View of Benares ca 1903	Village Barber, Indian Topics ca 1942

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