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.

General Post Office 1899	Apple Tree Nala, Srinagar, (Kashmir) ca 1904	Funeral Prayers for Abdul Qayum ca 1935
Indian Soldier, World War I ca 1914	[Fairey] IIID Crash Bombay 1925	The Ayah ca 1903
Aligators at Maghar Pir, Karachi ca 1905	The Apollo Bunder, Bombay ca 1905	Souvenir of East Indies Victoria Fountain ca 1897
King Emperor`s Message to the British Troops from India. ca 1915	[Indian Cavalry] ca 1905	Water bearer. Bombay. 1899
Tea in Transit to Wharf Ceylon ca 1910	Temple Chenar Bagh ca 1910	Netaji. Subhas Chandra Bose ca 1948
The Fakirs at Benares, On the Bank of the Ganges. India. ca 1910	Paschendaele Nov. 1914 Cavaliere indienne [Indian Cavalry] ca 1914	A Rajput of Rajgarh ca 1905
Home Rule League, Madras 1917	Darjeeling (Himalaya) ca 1905	Hindustan Nawab and his family (17th Century) ca 1900
Shopping on the Dal Lake ca 1910	Kandy ca 1910	Queen's Road, Bombay ca 1903
Lucknow, Indian Mutiny, 1857 ca 1905	Lipton's Teas and Coffees ca 1905	Girls School in Jaipur 1898
Segregation Camp, Bombay ca 1903	Dancing Girls. Jaipur. ca 1905	Gangavataran ca 1905

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