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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.


A Marwari Woman
ca 1905
Interior of Taj, Agra
ca 1905
Famous Nautch Girl
ca 1907
Lahore. Golden Mosque.
ca 1905
A Table Servant
ca 1908
Temple at Ramnagar, Benares
ca 1905
A Kashmir Woman
ca 1903
Coromandel Coaster (India) 19th Century
ca 1910
Plucking Tea, Dambatenne Estate, Ceylon
ca 1910
Jain Temple Calcutta.
ca 1907
A Pahari Woman
ca 1908
A Village Belle, Kashmir
ca 1905
Parsi Tower of Silence
ca
Rice Grinding [handwritten]
ca 1905
A Water Carrier, Central Provinces India.
ca 1908
Gwalior, Sas Bhao Temple
ca 1903
Jemadar Mir Dast, V.C., I.O.M.
ca 1915
Ram and Tulsidas Meeting
ca 1928
General View Shah Masjid and Ranjit Singh Samad, Lahore (India)
ca 1908
Bombay - Smoking Room, The Taj Mahal Hotel
ca 1904
A Persian Gypsy Woman and Her Children
ca 1908
Greetings from Darjeeling
ca 1899
Punjab Rose
ca 1908
Singhalese ayah (Nurse Maid)
ca 1905
Master Nandram
ca 1927
The Huzuri Bagh, Lahore
ca 1908
Expecting
Palms, Chepauk, Madras
ca 1910
An Indian Actress
ca 1908
Lucknow Modjibaman
ca 1905

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