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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.


An Indian Well
An Indian Fakir
ca 1904
An Arab Ship, Bombay Harbour
ca 1910
The Narghileh Smoker
ca 1905
Dehra Doon Railway Station
ca 1905
Washing Day Dhobi Washer Woman
ca 1907
Shipping Tea, Colombo
ca 1908
Avenue of Trees, Jumna Bridge, Allahabad.
ca 1908
[Zenana Carriage]
ca 1906
Bijbehara Temple (Kashmir)
ca 1904
First Glimpse of Bombay Harbour
ca 1904
View from Grand Hotel Avenue, Simla
ca 1905
Hornby Road & The Floral Fountain, Bombay.
ca 1907
Bunder Wallah or Monkey Man
ca 1908
Shipping Elephants
ca 1907
General Post Office, Calcutta
ca 1903
A Potter, Northern India
ca 1908
The Delhi Gate Fort, Agra.
1905
Brahman
ca 1903
Bear-Leader (Darweshi)
ca 1899
Bombay. General Post Office.
ca 1915
India, Bombay-Calcutta
ca 1901
Simla View from the Cart Road
ca 1908
A Group of the Maharaja's Elephants
ca 1901
Parade Road, Belgaum
ca 1905
Table Boy
ca 1905
The Museum, Udaipur
ca 1905
Dalhousie Square, Calcutta
ca 1907
Bikaner Camel Corps, Delhi Coronation Durbar
1903
A Burmese Beauty
ca 1908

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