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.

A Typical Maharajah ca 1903	Bombay ca 1908	Jai Hind 1947
The King Emperor ca 1911	Sita's Marriage	Shoe Maker ca 1905
The Grand Orient Hotel, Colombo ca 1910	Lahore. The Golden Mosque. ca 1905	Raja Sandow ca 1930
Madras, Temple at Tirvalur ca 1905	Chetty Rice Merchant and Money Lender. Ceylon ca 1907	Types of Men (I) ca 1910
Bombay Police ca 1907	Sardar Bhagat Singh ca 1931	A Mountebank ca 1905
In the Mosque of Machii-Kaman 1898	Watching the Pageant, Delhi ca 1908	Result of an Intrusion ca 1900
Hindoo Ayahs ca 1900	Sudder Bazaar, Peshawar 1910	Hajee Ismail Saits New Sawmill, Kolar Gold Fields ca 1901
A Jaipur Sardar ca 1905	Mohamedan Marriage ca 1905	at Mutta, Mohmand Field Force ca 1908
A Toda House, Its Master and Mistress. ca 1905	Rickshaw Mussoorie. Dandy Mussoorie. ca 1905	A Buddhist Priest, Ceylon ca 1908
Road Rolling ca 1930	Jeypore. The Chowk and Hawa Mahal ca 1905	Souvenir of East Indies Ganges Pagoda ca 1897

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