Greetings from Rawalpindi - Silk
This silk postcard has this message on the back "Dear Amy I hope you will keep the card as a souvenir of Rawalpindi and read mark learn and inwardly digest the reading Your with love Bill."
Divided back
Club and Ground, Kasauli Hill
A thickly embossed and framed postcard, a treatment that seems to be more prevalent among hillstation postcards.
Prisoners Spinning Yarn, Yarrowda Jail
Yerwada jail was originally built outside the city limits of Pune in 1871 by the British, but over time, as Pune expanded, Yerwada became integrated into the city, making the prison more centrally located within the urban area.
Famine relief Work. Digging the big well
While it is unclear where and when this postcard was taken, it could have been in 1899-1900 when there was a large famine in Hyderabad with relief works photographed by Raja Lala Deen Dayal.
Cordite Factory, Aravankudu
The Cordite Factory in Aruvankadu, India, is a significant defense establishment with a rich history and important role in India's ordnance production.
Old Fort, Delhi
[Original caption] Repaired by the Emperor Humayun in 1540 A.D. According to tradition founded by Pandav King, about 1400 B.C. [end]
A postcard which illustrates how intertwined the printing and publishing of postcards could be among firms.
A Mohamedan Woman
This is the same woman in Dancing Girl, apparently photographed at the same time with Lucknow's Chutter Manzil in the background, but here given a blander description.
Greetings from Mhow
There are 14 images in this carefully constructed postcard of a cantonment town in Central India now known as Dr. Ambedkar Nagar (after the first great leader of India's Dalit community). The publisher, K.
[Beegun Songstress of Lucknow]
![[Beegun Songstress of Lucknow]](https://www.paperjewels.org/sites/default/files/styles/square_thumbnail/public/slides/beegun-lucknow-color.jpg?itok=rsZGZMsG "[Beegun Songstress of Lucknow]")
The title comes from a collotype with this title.
Opium Shop
Although opium was a major crop in the rise of the East India Company, and India the major producer of opium sent to China, with production carefully taxed and recorded, barely a handful of postcards seem to acknowledge the crop and its manufacture.
