"Quetta Earthquake" [handwritten]

Sometimes postcards were journalism, in this case a real-time view of the deadliest earthquake in British India, which killed somewhere between 30,000 and 60,000 people in the capital of Balochistan on May 23, 1935. Butani was a military photographer at the time, who clearly survived the earthquake and recognized the value of this postcard for firmly blind stamped on the back is "Copy right Butani Photo - Quetta Not to be Published or Otherwise Reproduced."