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.


Nahapiet & Co's. Jute Factory Post Golah, Dacca
ca 1905
The Taj Mahal, Agra
ca 1903
Mahomedan Woman, Bangalore
ca 1910
Toda Temple
ca 1930
Indian Bakers at La Penne near Marseille
ca 1914
The Marble Rocks, Jubbulpure
1905
Shirshal [Sher Shah] Bridge, Multan
ca 1915
View of River Hooghly Showing the High Court, Calcutta
1903
Troopship leaving Bombay Harbour
ca 1915
The Connaught Hotel, Poona
ca 1903
Marine Drive, Bombay
ca 1948
Karachi, Eduljee Dinshaw Charity Hospital
ca 1905
Chow Kidar (Night Watch)
ca 1910
Cemetery - Bareilly
ca 1910
Bose
ca 1940
A Boothea Milkman
ca 1905
The Government House, Karachi
ca 1903
Panwala (Betel Nut Dealer)
ca 1907
Postmen of the British Empire: Burmah, India
ca 1903
We Often Go Rattling Along In These Rickety "Rickshaws"
1945
Prisoner of War Camp, Zossen-Wunsdorf, Muslims
ca 1915
South Mall and Lake Naini-Tal
ca 1905
Trifolya Gate palace, Jaipur
ca 1907
Gruss aus Carl Hagenbeck's Indien 1898
1898
The Statue, Memorial Well, Cawnpore
ca 1905
Main Station, Sukkur
ca 1920
Nizam von Hyderabad
ca 1897
Temple de Chillambaran
ca 1910
Lahore, Chief Court, Punjab.
ca 1907
The Marina, Madras
ca 1908

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