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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.


Rice Fields, Ceylon
ca 1910
Alauddin Gate, a Partial View, Delhi.
ca 1905
Taj Mahal. Agra
ca 1899
The highest gate in the Fort of Gwalior
1898
Kashmir Nautch Girl
ca 1905
Coonoor
ca 1905
Pattawala (Office Peon)
ca 1905
Calcutta
ca 1908
Greetings from South India
ca 1896
Frohliche Weinachten [Merry Christmas]
ca 1919
33rd Punjabis
ca 1911
The Harvest
ca 1904
Kothari Parade and Lady Lloyd Pier
ca 1905
An Indian Village
ca 1910
Ahmedabad Hindu
ca 1905
An Ayah
ca 1910
Footwear of Nations, 10 Designs - No. 4 India
1906
Thibetan [Tibetan] Woman, Darjeeling
ca 1905
The River showing Jetties and Howrah Bridge
ca 1905
Amphitheatre, Coronation Durbar, Delhi
ca 1911
The Deccan Postal Service
ca 1900
Benares on the Ganges
ca 1908
Meerut. Electric power house
ca 1908
Murree from Pindi Point (snow)
ca 1905
Naina Devi Temple
ca 1905
A Nair Lady, Malabar
ca 1905
Indian Postman
ca 1900
Country Boats on the Jhelum
ca 1910
General Post Office, Meerutt (India)
ca 1905
Bangalore. Alsur Temple Gateway.
ca 1905

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