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.

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	Indians at Ashford ca 1914	The Club, Allahabad ca 1905
View From Malabar Hill, Bombay ca 1903	La Guerre French - Front 1915	The Diwan-i-Khas, Delhi
Midnight ca 1930	Dharmsala, The Goorkha Barracks 1905	Sexan Hospital, Meerut ca 1907
Simla, View from Bazaar ca 1903	The Entrance to the Khyber Pass 1906	St. Patrick School, Karachi ca 1908
The Taj Mahal, Agra ca 1905	The Indian Army - Indians Washing ca 1914	Greetings from Darjeeling ca 1900
Zalra Tank, Ajmere ca 1907	Requisition of goats for the Indian troops ca 1914	The Bazaar of City Multan, India ca 1907
Quetta Fort ca 1903	View of the Zoological Gardens, Calcutta ca 1903	The Ctesiphon Arch, Mesopotamia ca 1917

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