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.

Pir Panjal Range (Kashmir) ca 1905	Govid Sing, Rajpoot Shikaree (Hunter) ca 1908	Root of an India Rubber Tree at Colombo, Ceylon ca 1908
Bombay. Pydownie Street. ca 1905	Snake Charmer, Jaipur ca 1905	Madras Central Station ca 1905
Calcutta Coolies ca 1908	Parsee Priest ca 1904	A Benares Dancing Girl ca 1905
Chuter munzil Lucknow ca 1910	Madras General Post Office ca 1908	Ceylon ca 1903
Kasauli from above Belvedere looking N.W. ca 1910	High Class People [handwritten] ca 1905	View at Soonamurg ca 1903
The Bazaar, Mooltan City ca 1910	Haunsa-Damayanti Sanvada ca 1905	The Empress Market, Karachi ca 1904
Clock Tower Lucknow ca 1910	Clock Tower Lucknow ca 1910	A Corner of Kandy Lake, Ceylon ca 1920
A Hill Coolie Girl ca 1905	A Fruit Seller, Madras ca 1908	Playing the Game in India ca 1913
Khojak Tunnel ca 1903	A Pathan ca 1941	The Pykara Falls, Nilgiris ca 1908
Statement of Plague Cases [Front] 1902	Statement of Plague Cases [Back] 1902	Rukmoni - The Famous Madras Beauty - Rangoon ca 1905

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