A Street Scene in Srinagar City.

[Original caption] Srinagar is the capital of the native state of Kashmir in Northern India. Its streets are if the usual regular patterns of primitive houses of wood, light, flimsy structures with mud roofs. The chief occupations of the inhabitants are silver-working, carpet-weaving, and the manufacture of paper and leather. The population in 1901 was 122,618. [end]

An unsigned, pencilled message on the back of the card dated 21/3/1912 reads, “Dear Molly I was very Pleased to receive postcards from you and very glad to know you are quite well and getting an on alright in your situation, but very sorry to hear you have had the influenza. I know what it is myself. I was in bed a fortnight with it when I was in service-”