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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.


Lahore. Roman Catholic Cathedral
ca 1907
Calcutta. Government House Throne Room
ca 1905
General View of the City, Fort and Mosque, Srinagar (Kashmir)
ca 1908
Water Bullock
ca 1905
Street Scene, Madras
ca 1905
The Post Office, Murree
ca 1908
Ceylon-Colombo Street Scene
ca 1905
(Late) Sukhdeo
ca 1932
A Mahomadan Huka and Coffee Shop
ca 1908
Morning exercise
ca 1905
Commercial Street, Bangalore
ca 1915
Cocoa Palmleaf Plaiters, Malabar
ca 1915
Frere Hall, Karachi
ca 1904
Packetting Tea, Colombo
ca 1908
Murree View From Above Hotel
ca 1905
Fruit Sellers
ca 1905
Public Gardens - Bassein
ca 1905
Gandhi
ca 1948
A Native Group
ca 1905
Taboot Procession, Bombay
ca 1905
Kandyan Lady, Ceylon
ca 1908
Kandyan lady
ca 1908
General View of Peshawar City
ca 1920
Shatrunjay Temples
ca 1901
Bombay - Great Western Hotel
ca 1905
Dancing Girl
1899
Soldiers' Married Quarters, Peshawar
ca 1905
The Railway Shed, Lahore
ca 1910
Kasauli Hill
ca 1905
Dharumtalla [Dharmatala] Road, Calcutta
ca 1935

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