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.


Hindoe [Hindu]
ca 1900
South Indian Woman
The Museum, Calcutta
ca 1905
Hindu Temple Manora Karachi
ca 1920
Bombay Victoria Terminus
ca 1905
[Indian Woman in Studio]
ca 1920
The Roberts Statue, Calcutta
ca 1905
The Albert Museum, Jaipur
ca 1905
The Albert Museum, Jeypore
ca 1901
Madras Girl with fruit
ca 1910
The Pontoon Bridge on the Hooghly. Calcutta.
ca 1905
Martund Temple, Kashmir
ca 1903
A Marwari Woman
ca 1905
Interior of Taj, Agra
ca 1905
Famous Nautch Girl
ca 1907
Lahore. Golden Mosque.
ca 1905
A Table Servant
ca 1908
Temple at Ramnagar, Benares
ca 1905
A Kashmir Woman
ca 1903
Coromandel Coaster (India) 19th Century
ca 1910
Plucking Tea, Dambatenne Estate, Ceylon
ca 1910
Jain Temple Calcutta.
ca 1907
A Pahari Woman
ca 1908
A Village Belle, Kashmir
ca 1905
Parsi Tower of Silence
ca
Rice Grinding [handwritten]
ca 1905
A Water Carrier, Central Provinces India.
ca 1908
Gwalior, Sas Bhao Temple
ca 1903
Jemadar Mir Dast, V.C., I.O.M.
ca 1915
Ram and Tulsidas Meeting
ca 1928

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