Taj Mahal Palace Hotel
The Taj Hotel was built to realize Jamsetji N. Tata's dream of a fine hotel to reflect the ascendancy of Bombay's own mercantile class.
Mumbai Bombay
Wood-house Road, Bombay
A quick glance at this postcard might make you think it is a European city, but it is actually a street in Mumbai with the Cathedral of the Holy Name, the seat of the Archbishop of Bombay. Opened in 1902, it was new around the time of this postcard.
Satyavati and Shantanu
[Original caption] Shantanu is trying to persuade Satyavati, the adopted daughter of a fisher, to marry him, & thus to satisfy his passionate desire. [end]
Cawnpore - Ganges Canal view.
Kanpur, known as Cawnpore before 1948, is one of the larger cities in the north Indian state of Uttar Pradesh. Once mainly a cantonment town, and scene of much fighting in 1857, today it is an important industrial center.
Nautch Girls
Note how carefully this postcard has been hand-tinted, even the studio carpet adding a little depth.
School Boys & Master
A really well hand-tinted postcard, the boys foregrounded in unflinching skin tones while master is enveloped in white.
The Tatschali Line in Bombay
Of the nine Josef Hoffman artist-signed postcards of India published by a Viennese firm in 1898 (here in an English version for Thacker & Co.), this one is the hardest to find, why is unclear.
Parsi Priest
A studio portrait of a Parsi priest, holding an umbrella.
[Child and Dog]
![[Child and Dog]](https://www.paperjewels.org/sites/default/files/styles/square_thumbnail/public/slides/child-and-dog.jpg?itok=88BXTF5X "[Child and Dog]")
A most unusual postcard of a colonial family's two beloved creatures, carefully composed together in the studio, ready for the girl's family to send to relatives.
Dog Keeper
One of the many – to Indians, curious – new professions that sprouted in the growing city of Bombay at the turn of the century.
