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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.


Ganeshkhind Avenue, Poona
ca 1905
Military Prison Trimulgherry
ca 1908
Miranjani from Govt. House, Nathiagali
ca 1908
A Charcoal Seller, Dalhousie
ca 1915
Watson's Hotel, Bombay
1910
Indian Pavilion from Lake
1924
Ziarat, Baluchistan
ca 1906
Ripon Hospital, Simla
ca 1910
The Golden Temple
ca 1915
Prayer in Juma Masjid, Delhi
ca 1905
Indian Fakir [Indischer Fakir]
ca 1910
Greetings from Rawalpindi - Silk
ca 1905
Club and Ground, Kasauli Hill
ca 1908
Prisoners Spinning Yarn, Yarrowda Jail
ca 1905
Famine relief Work. Digging the big well
ca 1900
Cordite Factory, Aravankudu
ca 1905
Old Fort, Delhi
ca 1907
A Mohamedan Woman
ca 1908
Greetings from Mhow
ca 1910
[Beegun Songstress of Lucknow]
ca 1910
Opium Shop
ca 1908
Naseem
ca 1940
Tuck's, Lahore [Envelope]
ca 1905
A Lady in Dandy
ca 1905
Wheat Export - Kemari, Karachi
ca 1905
Taziahs in the Mohurruan at Peshawar
ca 1910
Shankar
ca 1930
Hillman Carrying Wood
ca 1930
Sudder Bazaar, Rawalpindi
ca 1907
Mandali Range, Chakrata
ca 1910

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