4. Hush! My Wife! My wife!
The fourth card in Dhurandhar's series about a new pretty maid who comes into a middle-class household. [Next]
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5. Wife enraged
The fifth card in Dhurandhar's series about a new pretty maid who comes into a middle-class household. [Next]
Madras Date Palms
[Original caption] Madras, Date Palms. This is a corner, probably of the People's Park at Madras, which the city owes to energy of its sometime Governor, Sir Charles Trevelyan.
City Line To and From India
One of the reasons that postcards became so popular around the turn of the century was because of the growth of shipping and railway lines that let people and postcards move rapidly from place to place.
Simla, Annandale
"There is possibly no name connected with Simla which to thousands of Anglo-Indians, past and present, can revive more memories of a pleasant nature than that of Annandale." writes Edward Buck, the longtime resident and master chronicler of the
Betel Leaf Seller, Colombo
A wonderfully posed studio shot by Plate & Co., the well-known Colombo postcard publisher and portrait artist.
Narsinghgarh, The Lake
[Original caption] Narsingarh - The Lake. Narsingarh is the capital of the state of that name in central India. It was founded in 1687 and is most picturesquely located on the shore of an artificial lake with a fort and palace on the height above.
Spring Morning at Kralyar, Dal Lake
An self-published, artist-signed postcard of India, [Verso] "to be obtained from Miss Barne, St. Ebbas, Madras and from Miss Farnell, 56, Manchester Square, W.
Main Street with Pigeons in the foreground, Jaipur
A very popular Jaipur postcard, with pigeons even occupying the top of the dome on the right.
A Ward in Plague Hospital showing Patients, Bombay.
When the bubonic plague struck Bombay in the 1890s, postcards were used, in part, by the business community to communicate that all was okay, and that patients were being well taken care of in facilities like this one with clean interiors and an
