Jagniwas Water Palace Udaipur
The summer palace of the Mewar royal family was constructed in the 1740s Maharana Jagat Singh I. Note the exemplary arrangement ny the photographer of the boats in front, as if part of the palace architecture.
Divided back
An Indian School Room
Addressed to Miss Hoggan, Spindle Cottage, Styal Road, Wilslow, Cheshire, England and postmarked Karachi October 15, 1925: "How would you like to take a class like this? Mummie tells me you have gone back to school and that you are in a higher form.
Greetings from Calcutta
An early composite postcard, made up of 27 separate images stuffed into the outline of the letters.
A Benares Dancing Girl
Note how nicely the stamp is positioned in line with the woman's arms; according to the so-called "language of stamps" current at the turn of the century, this stamp position might mean the sender is asking "Do you love me?" or even "Your love
A Benares Dancing Girl
When this card was first published from London, The Picture Postcard and Collector's Chronicle, a magazine that catered to collectors, businessmen and and aficionados of the new medium, hailed it as a “a fascinating dancing girl from Benares” (Jan.
English Aircraft Shot Down
A German World War I postcard showing an English aircraft, Punjab 29 Rawalpindi, shot down during combat.
Bombay Beauty
Around the turn of the century, women of Bombay were on the cutting-edge of popular fashion, photographed in studio settings like this one and extensively postcarded.
Calcutta Museum
The Calcutta Museum was founded by a Danish botanist, Nathaniel Wallich, in 1814. It shifted to the present site in the 1870s. The architect of Calcutta Museum was W. L.
Bara Bazaar. Hyderabad, Dn. [Deccan]
![Bara Bazaar. Hyderabad, Dn. [Deccan]](https://www.paperjewels.org/sites/default/files/styles/square_thumbnail/public/slides/bara-bazaar_0.jpg?itok=260YDe5R "Bara Bazaar. Hyderabad, Dn. [Deccan]")
A lovely postcard were the energy flows outwards towards the viewer from the Char Minar, the city's landmark mosque built in 1591.
Gulmarg
An early postcard of Gulmarg, a favorite holiday resort during the Raj and now a ski resort.
