c. 1905
13.70x
8.80cm
An early documentary or journalistic postcard. The Kangra earthquake of April 5, 1905, some 200 miles away in northern Punjab, damaged many structures in Lahore, a city of 180,000 and may have caused the fire referenced by this postcard. It measured 7.8 and killed 20,000 people, and was memorialized in a form that natural disasters today don't seem to be.