The Great Burning Ghat in Benares
[Original German] Der Grosse Verbrennungs Platz in Benares [end]
One of the earliest artist-signed postcards of India.
Postcard
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.
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.
The Mall, Murree. In Summer.
"The Mall, far from serving merely as a site for commerce or recreation, functioned as a symbolic and material articulation of imperial hierarchy, controlling access to commodities and visibility, and reinforcing notions of prestige, superiority, and
Bawarchi. (Cook.)
The word "bawarchi" for cook apparently entered Hindi via Urdu from classical Persian. "Chi" is a common Persian suffix meaning "a person who does or is associated with" a type of work.
Maharaja's Palace, Srinagar
Sher Garhi Palace was a royal residence and power center on the banks of the Jhelum in Srinagar.
Picturesque Burma. Zaffera (Zaffera) with a floating house.
[Original Italian] La Birmania pifforesca. Zaffera con casa galleggiante. [end]
This card was published by an Italian missionary society, L'Insituto Delle Missioni Estere di Milano.
