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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.


A Tea Estate, Darjeeling.
ca 1899
Puran Reading in a Temple
ca 1905
Mother and Child
ca 1905
Icicles, Simla
ca 1908
Miss Chanda of Hyderabad
ca 1906
A Nautch Girl and Musicians
ca 1905
Srinagar, 6th Bridge
ca 1908
Salaams from India
ca 1908
A Coolie in the Stocks, Hongkong
ca 1908
Jahangirsha his jar of wine and Zaibun Nissa Begam
ca 1910
Conoor and Black Bridge
ca 1904
Female Spinning, Jaipur
ca 1905
High Court, Calcutta
ca 1908
Kashmere Gate
ca 1908
The Cookboat
ca 1910
Elephant hunting tiger [handwritten]
ca 1905
Jeypore Street Scene
1905
Taj Mahal Palace Hotel
ca 1910
A Kashmiri Nautch Girl
ca 1903
Calcutta. Devil Dancers.
1905
Pagodas by Moonlight
ca 1908
Wood-house Road, Bombay
ca 1908
Satyavati and Shantanu
ca 1908
Cawnpore - Ganges Canal view.
ca 1908
Nautch Girls
ca 1908
Delhi. The Old Magazine Gate.
1910
School Boys & Master
ca 1908
Greeting from South India
ca 1901
Jeypore Street Scene. Native Regiment on the March.
1905
Central Assembly Hall - New Delhi
ca 1927

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