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.

South Mall and Lake Naini-Tal ca 1905	Trifolya Gate palace, Jaipur ca 1907	Gruss aus Carl Hagenbeck's Indien 1898 1898
The Statue, Memorial Well, Cawnpore ca 1905	Main Station, Sukkur ca 1920	Nizam von Hyderabad ca 1897
Temple de Chillambaran ca 1910	Lahore, Chief Court, Punjab. ca 1907	The Marina, Madras ca 1908
Merchants Lane, Ambala. ca 1908	President Jawaharlal Nehru ca 1950	Rawalpindi City ca 1920
Recollections of Darjeeling ca 1903	Punjaub Rose ca 1905	Native Wrestlers ca 1903
Woodstock College for Girls - Mussoorie ca 1920	Silversmith ca 1945	Comrades ca 1914
Takht-e-Suleman and River Jhelum ca 1930	An Indian Well	Shravak Temple, Girnar ca 1903
View of Benares ca 1903	Village Barber, Indian Topics ca 1942	Mon Brave Hindou [My Brave Indian] ca 1914
Cotton Pickers ca 1903	Indian Troops China ca 1900	State Elephant, Jeypore ca 1910
Hill Tribes, Simla ca 1905	Secundra, Entrance To Akbar's Tomb ca 1907	Snake Charmers 1905

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