A Jaipur Sardar
Seated on a horse, this Jaipur Sardar wears a traditional dress and looks very bored indeed.
Collotype
at Mutta, Mohmand Field Force
Graves of British soldiers killed in August 1908 during a British military expedition against Mohamand tribes northeast of Peshawar who had launched a surprise attack against the city on April 24, 1908, fomenting what one British general called a
Rickshaw Mussoorie. Dandy Mussoorie.
A very unusual early split-screen postcard by Julian Rust, "Art Photographer," which combines collotype images with the ornate decorative flourish of lithographic postcards. Hobson-Jobson (1903, p.
The Staff College Quetta
The Staff College for the British Indian army was moved here in 1907 and became the main senior training center until Partition; since then it is the Pakistan army's main educational facility.
Bombay Native Bazaar
Bourne & Shepherd are said to have begun their photographic activities in 1840, a year after the invention of photography (see Macmillan, Seaports of India and Ceylon, 1928, p.
Nagarkhana Gate, Fort, Belgaum
Shriniwas Mahadeo & Sons on Church Road in Belgaum (now Belagavi, Karnataka) published a number of exceptional cards of the ruins of Nagarkhana Gate. Note the red coloring on a few flowers, applied by stencil.
Scrawled in pencil on the back of this
The Pykara Falls, Nilgiris
Pykara is not far from Ooty, and was a popular South Indian postcard subject. Sacred to the Todas, the Pykara River is also where one of India's first hydroelectric power plants was commissioned in the 1930s.
The Well at Sultan Nizamuddeen. Delhi.
The Well at Sultan Nizamuddin in Delhi was constructed in 1321 in honor of Shaikh Nizamuddin Auliya (1236-1325) a SUfi saint who arrived in India long before the Mughals and preached a religion of love and mysticism.
Baramullah, Kashmir.
An almost painterly postcard when one examines the detail in the foreground of men and women workers, pounding and transporting grain; there are even people at the top left doing something under the tree.
A Group of Ayahs
A very evocative studio portrait of three – instead of the usual single - ayah which, intentionally or not, hints at something of the pathos of their work.
