General View of Peshawar City
An uncommon shot of Peshawar, showing the density of habitation. In the far left is the Mahabat Khan mosque, built in the 1860s.
Real Photo
Dharumtalla [Dharmatala] Road, Calcutta
![Dharumtalla [Dharmatala] Road, Calcutta](https://www.paperjewels.org/sites/default/files/styles/square_thumbnail/public/slides/dharumtalla-road_0.jpg?itok=sarlOTGT "Dharumtalla [Dharmatala] Road, Calcutta")
Dharmatala (Dharumtalla) Road, now Lenin Sarani in central Kolkata, is one of the busiest thoroughfares in Kolkata. Its original name means "holy street."
Phatani Begging Woman
Women are often shown as dancers, rarely this elderly as beggars on postcards. This photograph was likely taken in a studio, with the woman sitting on a stone which might be covered with animal skins.
H.R.H. Prince of Wales coming out from Khyber Pass
A rare visit by the Prince of Wales to the edges of Empire; note the car in the foreground and mid-ground. Edward VIII later gained notoriety for abdicating in 1936 after choosing to marry a divorced America woman, Wallis Simpson.
The Raja Bazaar (Main Street) of Rawalpindi City
A rich bazaar view by a little known publisher once based in Peshawar whose wide variety of postcards of Punjab and NWFP is possibly unrivaled in the region during the early 20th century. Moorli Dhur & Sons of Amballa, and H.A.
[Post Office English Mail Expected on]
![[Post Office English Mail Expected on]](https://www.paperjewels.org/sites/default/files/styles/square_thumbnail/public/slides/english-mail_0.jpg?itok=fxht_wCj "[Post Office English Mail Expected on]")
An early real photo postcard of a post office with signs indicating the schedule for mail coming from England. Sir Malcolm Darling wrote about the importance of this mail when he was a young I.C.S.
Nautch Girl Lying, Jaipur
The great Hindi/Urdu writer Munshi Premchand describes, from the point-of-view of Suman, the heroine of his first novel Sevasadan, the complex view she has of Bholi, a courtesan living across the street from her:
"Suman had never met any courtesans,
Sreemati Kamaladevi Chattopadhaya
Kamaladevi Chattopadhaya was born into an intellectual family in Mangalore on the west coast of India.
No Hobson's Choice at Taraporevala's
A clever advertising postcard from what what Bombay's leading bookseller and major postcard publisher at the turn of the century.
Woman On Chair
A melange of green, ink, red and yellow masterfully applied to a real photograph.
