The Indian Pavilion at the 1924 British Empire Exhibition (Wembley) was designed as a major “showpiece” building in an Indo‑Saracenic/Mughal-revival idiom, explicitly modelled on iconic North Indian monuments (often described as drawing on the Jama
After Ahmad Shah Durrani took Peshawar in 1747, Bala Hissar served as a royal residence for the Durrani Empire. This period is strongly associated with the fort’s role as an Afghan administrative and courtly center in the frontier city.
![[Unidentified Camp]](https://www.paperjewels.org/sites/default/files/styles/square_thumbnail/public/slides/camp_0.jpg?itok=tjzsuyNx "[Unidentified Camp]")
This postcard probably shows a scene near Ravi Varma's studios outside Bombay [Mumbai] near the Karli temples.
[Original German] Ein Tamulenjungling im Festschmuck, Ostindien. [A Tamil boy in festive adornment]
A memorable portrait by a German missionary organization.
The Franco-British Exhibition of 1908, celebrating a new understanding on dividing up colonial interests between the two powers, came at the height of interest and production of the new medium of postcards.
A standard depiction of the colony as a trunk full of raw materials, this series seems to have been started in the 1900-1910 period and persisted into the 1940s.
This postcard is postmarked Anerle, May 5, 1942 and sent to a Miss Pound, Jubilee
[Original handwritten message, verso] "25/11 Dear David, These are the funny old carriages which we see every day in Calcutta. The old lady has been shopping for Christmas."
An fascinating article on the artist behind this postcard, George Darby, by
A card with over-printed Christmas Greetings, hard to find but not unusual.
[Original caption] Wazir Khan's Mosque (Outer Part) Lahore.
The London based publisher F.
Standing in front of the Lahore Museum, this cannon became known as "Bhangian Di Top" (Cannon of the Bhangis) after it was captured by Hari Singh Bhangi and his forces in 1762, one of the Sikh confederacies.
