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.
Parsi Ladies
Another version of one of the most popular images of Parsee women in the late 19th, early 20th centuries. Sent to Miss E. Starr, 813 Fulham Road, Fulham, London S.W., England and postmarked Karachi July 29, 1905.
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Singhalese man and Tamil woman (Dwarf)
It is unusual for postcards to put two people on an ethnographic postcard, although in this case it was the height contrast that caught the attention of the publisher in this studio shot. Would it have been better had the man not sat down?
Sweetmeat seller
The mithai-wala was a popular postcard subject; in this composition the textile pattern behind the man gives the image energy even as the man stares somewhere far away.
Data Khel fort, Waziristan
It is unclear from which of the many British campaigns in Waziristan, Northwest Frontier Province (NWFP, now Khyber Pakhtunkhwa) on the border with Afghanistan this postcard of an early armored car is from.
