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.

9 Reconciliation at last 1907	1 Young Maid Servant 1907	2 At First Sight 1907
5. Wife enraged 1907	4. Hush! My Wife! My wife! 1907	3. How Sweet you are! 1907
Madras Date Palms ca 1905	City Line To and From India ca 1904	Simla, Annandale ca 1905
Betel Leaf Seller, Colombo ca 1905	Narsinghgarh, The Lake ca	Spring Morning at Kralyar, Dal Lake ca 1910
Main Street with Pigeons in the foreground, Jaipur ca 1907	A Ward in Plague Hospital showing Patients, Bombay. ca 1905	Damayanti ca 1905
Hindu Temple Colombo ca 1905	La Guerre Europeenne de 1914 [The European War 1914] ca 1914	London: India House ca 1930
Ladhakis and Yaks, Scinde Valley, Kashmir ca 1903	Goan Beauty ca 1908	Madras, A Road Scene. ca 1905
Milk Woman ca 1905	Afraid of his Complexion ca 1905	Native Street ca 1899
Entrance to Akbar`s Tomb, Agra. ca 1908	The Golden Temple, Benares ca 1905	Loading a Bombay Cart ca 1904
Rambagh. - Owner: - Ram Charan Das, Rai Bahadur, Allahabad ca 1910	Indian Raja ca 1905	Foreign Office, Simla ca 1908

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