Brahmins Dining. Jaipur.
A carefully staged scene in which the cloth backdrop helps focus us on the individuality of the men.
Postcard
Humayon's [Humayun's] Tomb, Delhi
![Humayon's [Humayun's] Tomb, Delhi](https://www.paperjewels.org/sites/default/files/styles/square_thumbnail/public/slides/humayunds-tomb-delhi-signed.jpg?itok=98UGZcXV "Humayon's [Humayun's] Tomb, Delhi")
The Mexican Nobel Prize winner Octavio Paz (1914-1998) served as his country's Ambassador to India in the 1960s, and just before he died left behind a memoir of the country, In Light of India (1995) which has a beautiful description of Humayun's
S.M.S. Emden
[Original German titles, translated] "Emden" Five English Ships in the Bay of Bengal. Upon the Return of First Lieutenant v. Muecke with the Emden crew in Germany [end]
The story of His Majesty's Ship the Emden is one of the most captivating of World
[India Artist Card 2]
![[India Artist Card 2]](https://www.paperjewels.org/sites/default/files/styles/square_thumbnail/public/slides/india-art-card-2_0.jpg?itok=mqud_JMq "[India Artist Card 2]")
An Italian art card fantasy from the 1920s.
Telegraph Office - Calcutta
It is hard to overestimate the importance of the telegraph, introduced in 1840 to the Raj, as this grand edifice dedicated to the new medium and constructed in the 1870s suggests.
Gustav Hagenbeck's Biggest Indian People Exhibition in the World
In the book Carl Hagenbeck's Empire of Entertainments by Eric Ames (2008) he describes the importance of this exotic showman and his family who helped turn "India" into a touring spectacle following an 1898 exhibition in Berlin, even if most of the
Darjeeling. Kinchunjunga. No. 2
Kanchenjunga, the third highest mountain in the world, owes its name to the combination of two Tibetan words namely 'Kanchen' and 'Dzonga' that refers to 'Five Treasures of the Great Snow'. Five summits adorn Kanchenjunga (Kinchunjunga). From
Calcutta. Juggernath Bathing Ghat
This ghat was one of the most common photographic and postcard images, and renamed in 2012 as Chotulal's Ghat. It apparently dates back to the 18th century.
Greetings from India
A "Greetings from India" postcard composed of many images, each of which were also separate postcards, within stenciled letters. On the back the owner wrote "What do you think of the square tacks?"
Europeans Travelling on the Palanquin
A very early postcard most likely drawn by lithographer Paul Gerhardt and printed at The Ravi Varma Press, although this is not certain and is based on its similarity to other signed Gerhardt postcards in its use of leaves and trees and background.
