Welcome to Paper Jewels

Paper Jewels is postcards from the Raj (1892-1947) restored professionally and free to use. It grew out of the book Paper Jewels Postcards from the Raj (Mapin/Alkazi, 2018) by Omar Khan and associated exhibitions. Get a new Raj postcard everyday here, on Instagram and Facebook.

Calcutta. Curzon Gardens. ca 1905	Colaba Causeway, Bombay. ca 1905	Rangoon Jail ca 1905
Simla Timber Coolie ca 1905	Bombay Beauties ca 1905	A Coconut Seller, Madras ca 1910
Walker Hospital, Simla ca 1905	Extracting Gold, Cyanide Works, Kolar Fields ca 1901	The Memorial Church, Cawnpore ca 1905
Postmen of the British Empire: Mail Carrier and Guard, Oudeypore, India ca 1903	Depot Dalhousie ca 1905	Government Dairy, Ambala ca 1910
Dr. Keshav Baliran Hedgewar ca 1930	Nagarkhana Gate, Fort, Belgaum ca 1905	Birds eye View - Amritsar ca 1910
Bullock with water-skins & Bhisti. Jaipur ca 1905	Aitken's Post, Bailey Guard. ca 1905	Chowringhee, Calcutta ca 1905
Our Dhoby, Madras ca 1905	Damayanti ca 1905	Coronation Darbar 1911 - Delhi ca 1911
[Calcutta Harbour on the Hooghly] ca 1903	Group of famine stricken victims ca 1905	An Indian Bungalow ca 1903
Mr. Dadabhai Naoroji, President, 2nd Congress, Calcutta 1886 and 9th Congress, Lahore, 1893 ca 1905	Chalking the Doorstep, Madras ca 1905	Gardens on the Dahl Lake, Kashmir ca 1903
Ancient Buddhist Temple Gwalior ca 1904	The Imperial Delhi Durbar ca 1911	An Ideal Cycling Costume ca 1910

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