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.

Naquin Mosque at Fort Agra ca 1920	Sir Pertab Singh [Pratab Singh of Idar] ca 1908	Great Eastern Hotel, Calcutta ca 1908
Narsingarh Entrance to Old Fort ca 1907	Burma. At the Well. ca 1910	Moet & Chandon Dry Imperial, 1898 1898
Village Scene ca 1905	Preaching by Riverside, Chittagong Hill Tracts ca 1906	Winter in Gulmarg - Kashmir ca 1955
Goorkha Soldiers ca 1905	Bhistee (Water Carrier) ca 1910	Troops of the British Empire - Hongkong Constabulary ca 1910
Toda Mund ca 1915	Vernag Sacred Stream, Kashmir ca 1903	Jumna Bridge, Allahabad ca 1907
The Indian Army - Indian Hairstyle ca 1914	Carlton Hotel ca 1920	Hooseinabad, (Bird`s Eye View) Lucknow. ca 1906
Attock from Khairabad (Indus Flood) ca 1908	Prisoner of War Camp 2 Munster in Wunsdorf 1916 Roll Call 1916	Maharajah's Wind Palace, Jaipur ca 1905
Clifton Karachi ca 1920	Holwell Monument, Calcutta ca 1908	The Inland Steamer "Serang" ca 1908
Downed English Fighter Plane ca 1915	Barian Bazaar (Summer) ca 1908	The Waterfall, Chakrata ca 1910
The Incomparable Mandalay ca 1907	Mekrani Child ca 1905	Two of A Kind in Kashmir ca 1907

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