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.

Sinkaleesch [Singhalese] ca 1900	The Times of India Building, Bombay ca 1910	The Gymkhana, Poona ca 1908
Ceylon Banyan Tree Arch, Near Colombo ca 1908	Sawing Timber ca 1908	The Syce ca 1903
Street Scene, Jaipur India ca 1908	Prisoners at Work - Almora Jail 1904	The Post Office in British India [La Poste Aux Indes Anglaises] 1901
The Charleville Hotel Mussoorie ca 1910	Raw Jute Mill, Calcutta ca 1908	Native pottery Bazaar, Madras ca 1905
Victoria Driver ca 1904	Miss Akhtara ca 1935	Gate where Pipe Line starts near Dungagali ca 1908
The Residency, Bangalore. ca 1910	Ceylon. Road Near Colombo ca 1905	Excavations on the Stupa Mound, Mohenjodaro ca 1935
Nungumbaukum ca 1904	The "Baboo" Cyclist. ca 1908	Empress Market Camp, Karachi ca 1903
Radha-Vilas 1910	Ceylon 1892	Postman, Mysore, British India ca 1900
[Dancer] ca 1900	Gruss aus Carl Hagenbeck's Indien 1898 1898	Mr. D. E. Wacha ca 1903
The Residency (General View) Lucknow ca 1908	Bombay. General View from Clock Tower. ca 1908	Jama Musjid ca 1908

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