Greetings from Bombay
From an early "Greetings from" series by D.M. Macropolo & Co., a renowned Raj tobacconist with retail stores in Kolkata and Mumbai.
Postcard
Chandulal's Car, Bolarum, Hyderabad
From an unusual later lithographic series, with some photographs by Raja Deen Dayal, and many of areas like this one around Hyderabad and including events like Lord Curzon's visit in 1903 to the State, it is nonetheless not at all clear that Dayal
A Mohamedan dancing Girl in Attitude
This so-called "chromo-collotype" card was created by running an image derived from a black and white photograph through multiple color runs, after each color had dried, creating rich and translucent images.
Calcutta
One of the earliest postcards of India, Calcutta, published by W. Rossler, a German or Austrian photographer in the city in 1897. Lithograph, Court sized, Printed in Austria. Undivided back.
Eid Mubarak [Eid Greetings]
![Eid Mubarak [Eid Greetings]](https://www.paperjewels.org/sites/default/files/styles/square_thumbnail/public/slides/eid-greetings-4_0.jpg?itok=yxvPcehy "Eid Mubarak [Eid Greetings]")
This lavishly illustrated card, embossed in gold outline, was printed in Germany. It shows how European figures and themes were easily repurposed for local holidays.
Kandy Library
Kandy is still the religious and cultural capital of Sri Lanka, founded in the 14th Century capital of the Sinhalese kingdom from 1592-1815. The name Kandy is derived from the Sinhalese "Kanda uda pas rata", which means "five districts in the
Wazir Khan Mosque (inner part) Lahore
The inner courtyard (sahn) of Lahore’s Wazir Khan Mosque built in the 17th century is the mosque’s central open space, organized to frame the prayer hall (on the west) and surrounded by arched cloisters that create a rhythmic, enclosed “room” of sky.
Horticultural Gardens, Madras - The Screw Pine
The “screw pine” at the Horticultural Gardens in Madras refers to Pandanus species (often Pandanus utilis / Pandanus odorifer), striking monocot trees with spiralling leaves and stilt‑like aerial roots that were prized as ornamental and economic
[Woman at loom]
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K. Lall & Co. were a publisher of interesting real photo postcards, like this one of a cotton spinner, whose flat composition speaks to a style of portrait photography not common among photographers.
