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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.


German Himalaya Expedition to Nanga Parbat 1934 (8120 meters)
ca 1932
The Taj. Emperor Shah Jehan.
ca 1909
Wharf, Karachi
ca 1947
The Residency, Srinagar
ca 1910
Lahore. Punjab Club.
ca 1905
Famine Group Victims [handwritten]
ca 1905
The Market, Kasauli
ca 1905
[Karla Station]
ca 1905
Road Sweeper
ca 1903
Four Kandyan Girls, Ceylon
ca 1905
River Ravi & Bridges of Boats, Lahore
ca 1903
Grand Oriental Hotel Colombo
ca 1910
A Rajput
ca 1901
Bombay
ca 1902
Veddahs. Wild men of Ceylon
1910
A Mohamedan Fakir
ca 1905
Fruit Seller
ca 1904
Madras Seven Pagodas
ca 1905
Jumma Masjid Bombay
1899
General View of Old Fort Mooltan
ca 1908
General View of Old Fort, Mooltan
ca 1905
Bull Temple, Bangalore
ca 1905
Birth of Shakuntala
ca 1905
Madras Merchant, Colombo
ca 1905
Cenotaph of Maharana Jai Singhji
ca 1910
Site of Action of 24-4-08 against Mohmands
ca 1908
Greetings from Jubbulpore
ca 1905
Khojak Tunnel
ca 1905
A Tamil Girl, Ceylon
ca 1905
The tooth relic of Lord Buddha
ca 1905

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