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.

High Class People [handwritten] ca 1905	View at Soonamurg ca 1903	The Bazaar, Mooltan City ca 1910
Haunsa-Damayanti Sanvada ca 1905	The Empress Market, Karachi ca 1904	Clock Tower Lucknow ca 1910
Clock Tower Lucknow ca 1910	A Corner of Kandy Lake, Ceylon ca 1920	A Hill Coolie Girl ca 1905
A Fruit Seller, Madras ca 1908	Playing the Game in India ca 1913	Khojak Tunnel ca 1903
A Pathan ca 1941	The Pykara Falls, Nilgiris ca 1908	Statement of Plague Cases [Front] 1902
Statement of Plague Cases [Back] 1902	Rukmoni - The Famous Madras Beauty - Rangoon ca 1905	Crawford Market, Bombay ca 1908
The Royal Mosque Lahore (full view) ca 1910	Army Concentration Camp, Delhi Darbar ca 1911	Village Scene, Bombay 1905
India North German Lloyd [Indien Nordeutscher Lloyd Bremen] ca 1899	Jaffna Tamil, Ceylon ca 1910	Native Soldier ca 1904
Female Spinning, Jaipur ca 1905	Galle Face Hotel, Ceylon ca 1901	Simla. View from Mashobra. 1910
Kashmir beauty ca 1915	Sind Club ca 1908	The Ruling Princes of India ca 1908

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