The highest gate in the Fort of Gwalior
[Original German] Das Oberste Thor Vom Fort Gwalior [end]
This image is from a painting by Josef Hoffmann, an Austrian painter and early postcard artist who traveled to India in the mid-1890s.
Lithograph
Lithograph
Greetings from South India
One of the earliest roughly dateable postcards of India, made by a German firm that soon seems to have vanished from history. It probably dates to 1896, when a similar card of Haiti was made (see Haiti's First Postcard by Peter. C. Jeannopoulus in
Frohliche Weinachten [Merry Christmas]
![Frohliche Weinachten [Merry Christmas]](https://www.paperjewels.org/sites/default/files/styles/square_thumbnail/public/slides/prisoner-card_0.jpg?itok=CnFj7lqd "Frohliche Weinachten [Merry Christmas]")
An extremely unusual World War I Merry Christmas card sent from the British-Indian Prisoner of War camp in Ahmednagar on Nov. 19, 1919 by H. Pome 161 to Miss M. Pome in Steiermark, Austria.
Ahmedabad Hindu
An lithographic postcard, published in India, possibly by "Haji Yusuf Haji Mohammed. Pictures, Post-cards & Cutlery Merchant. Grant Road Cross-Lane.
The Deccan Postal Service
[Original French] La Poste Au Deccan. [end]
Kunzli Freres was a Swiss company known for high-quality lithographic printing, and this was part of a series of postcards celebrating the way mail was delivered around the world.
Indian Postman
An early Belgian advertising card for Lux – but not the soap!
General Post Office
The GPO in Bombay was already the largest post office in India when this card was produced in 1899, with tens of millions of postcards passing through in a city of less than a million.
Indian Soldier, World War I
A beautiful lithographic postcard celebrating an Indian soldier in World War I. Published in Lausanne, Switzerland, its design is exquisite: the flag just breaks the white border in a field of red, and features a faux postmark from the campaign.
King Emperor`s Message to the British Troops from India.
Over a million Indian troops served as part of the British forces in World War I; postcards were used to help recruit them, often in languages like Gujarati, though this card seems to have been intended more for British troops already serving in
[Indian Cavalry]
![[Indian Cavalry]](https://www.paperjewels.org/sites/default/files/styles/square_thumbnail/public/slides/india-army_0.jpg?itok=7evw3Eiy "[Indian Cavalry]")
An early advertising card for the West End Watch Co. in Bombay (373 Hornby Road) and Calcutta (14 Dalhousie Square), produced by a famous Swiss printing house.
