Trained Elephants at work (Another view)
It is unclear where this image is from, but elephants were used during colonial times in Assam, Bengal and Malabar to haul logs out of forests.
Postcard
Patiala State Court
The Patiala State Court was one of the “courts” within the Indian Pavilion at the British Empire Exhibition in Wembley, 1924, a state-branded display space for Patiala’s produce, crafts, and commerce.
Hindu Woman.
Smiles on postcards from the early 1900s are rather rare, possibly because most portraits required the sitter to stay still for many seconds while the exposure was made, especially in the 19th century when most portraits were struck and re-purposed
Channarbagh Nala, Srinagar.
An exceptionally well-reserved postcard, with the deep blue of the water reflecting how these early color postcards appeared as jewels to consumers who had not seen printed color images so widely and inexpensively available until shortly after 1900.
[Villagers at Well]
![[Villagers at Well]](https://www.paperjewels.org/sites/default/files/styles/square_thumbnail/public/slides/villagers-well_0.jpg?itok=vLDASFd9 "[Villagers at Well]")
A really special postcard, a view of rural life usually invisible on to these casual slips of paper.
Refugees on Race Course
Millions of refugees moved between the new states of India and Pakistan in 1947, and Johnny Stores, run by the photographer Janki das since about the 1920s, was one of the rare photographers of both sides. His Wharf, Karachi actually shows Hindus
Mahatma Gandhi
An early postcard of Gandhi, signed by K.L. [?] Joshi and dated 1921, not long after he had been termed the "Mahatma" by Rabindranath Tagore (1915) and had launched the First Non-Cooperation Movement in 1920.
Gateway, Akbar`s Tomb, Sekundra, Agra.
Akbar started building his own tomb at Sikandra, but it was completed by his son Jehanghir in 1605. Although it said that a central dome is missing on this edifice, it remains one of the most exquisite of Mughal gates.
[Verso] "23.8.11 Dear Molly,
Hindu Tailor
Nestor Gianaclis, like D. Macropolo & Co., another Greek-owned firm, was not primarily a photographer so much as a Greek tobacco merchant whose Calcutta office also issued collotype picture postcards and photographic prints in the early 1900s.
A Corner of Zoo, Peshawar, Showing Lions Cages & Enclosures
A rare candid shot of a zoo in colonial times. Apparently, Peshawar had a small zoo in the those times located in Shahi Bagh (the “Royal Garden”), a government-owned garden being developed into public pleasure grounds.
