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.


P. & O. S.S. Kaiser-i-Hind [Emperor of India]
ca 1920
Scene of the Hooghly, Calcutta.
ca 1903
The Baby and his Goat. Jaipur.
ca 1905
Karli Caves
ca 1899
When Master is at Office
ca 1905
Master's Tooth-Brush
ca 1905
The End of Baccha Sakoo and his Accomplices by the Ropes in their Necks.
ca 1929
The Bowachi
ca 1915
Specimens of Kashmir Carving
ca 1903
Miss Buchwa Jan of Karachi
ca 1905
Dungagali from Natia Road (Snow)
ca 1905
La Poste Au Cachemire [The Kashmir Post]
ca 1900
Miss Gohur, Prima Donna of India
ca 1910
Bangalore. Commercial Street.
ca 1905
Gajagauri
ca 1905
A Type of Marwaree Beauty
ca 1910
Nedous Hotel, Lahore
ca 1910
India - Burma
ca 1910
The Indian English Postal Service
ca 1900
A Human nest in Baluchistan
ca 1905
Clock Tower Chandni Chowk, Delhi.
ca 1905
Shell Cutters
ca 1905
A Mendicant Friar of Behar
ca 1905
Curious Craft. Catamaran, Madras
ca 1900
Map of Ceylon showing Her Tea Industry
ca 1934
On the top Road between Dungagali & Nathiagali
ca 1905
Upper Mall with Church and Post Office, Simla
ca 1910
Memorial Well, Cawnpore
ca 1905
Indian Tea Garden Coolie Girl
ca 1905
Telegraph Peon
ca 1903

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