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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.


Tagore [Silk]
ca 1930
Rumi Durwaza, Lucknow
ca 1908
P.S. Emperor of India
1948
Sheesh Mahal in the Fort, Agra
ca 1908
Murlidhar
ca 1910
Guerre 1914 - Hindu Fumant La Pipe [Indian Smoking a Hookah]
ca 1919
Kandyan Folk Dance, Ceylon.
ca 1940
H.R.H. Prince of Wales passing through Peshawar City
ca 1920
Mohammedan Boy from East India
1920
Allahabad Card
ca 1915
Khurshid, Indian Cinema Star
ca 1940
Shalimar gardens, Lahore
1910
Mr. V. G. Patel
ca 1930
Eid Card Train
ca 1945
Byculla Club, Bombay
ca 1908
Lama Beggars
ca 1905
Chenar Bagh
ca 1903
Our Restless Neighbours The Pathans
ca 1905
A Model of Rajput Beauty
ca
Tombs of Princess Jahanara and Nizamuddin, 4 miles from Delhi
ca 1908
The Club, Mooltan
ca 1907
Katkari
ca 1899
Hard Life in India
ca 1908
Late Motilal Nehru Day, Karachi
1931
On The Pipeline
ca 1908
Missionary Catechists of Mary Immaculate Mymensingh Hindustan On Tour at the Home of the Garros
ca 1905
Government House, Peshawar
ca 1910
Ganesh
ca 1905
A Jungle Village, Ceylon
ca 1910
Aitchson College
ca 1935

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