No. 94 Study of a Singhalese Woman
Note the title, which attempts to justify the nude image as some sort of ethnographic study.
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Shalimar Gardens
Hector Bolitho, the biographer who spent time in Pakistan in the early 1950s researching his book Jinnah: Creator of Pakistan (1954) wrote this about the Shalimar Gardens:
"While I was in Lahore I made a habit of rising at five o'clock each morning
[Woman at loom]
![[Woman at loom]](https://www.paperjewels.org/sites/default/files/styles/square_thumbnail/public/slides/woman-at-loom_0.jpg?itok=KOmoyvGo "[Woman at loom]")
K. Lall & Co. were a publisher of interesting real photo postcards, like this one of a cotton spinner, whose flat composition speaks to a style of portrait photography not common among photographers.
G. K. Gokhale
Gopal Krishna Gokhale (1866–1915) was a leading moderate nationalist, social reformer and parliamentarian in early 20th‑century India, best known as founder of the Servants of India Society and as an important political mentor to both M. K.
"Hotel in the Camp"
The Karachi Congress party meeting, held six days after Bhagat Singh was executed on March 23, 1931, was a tense affair.
Fisherman, Ceylon
John & Co., Ceylon was an early 20th‑century commercial postcard and view‑card publisher based in Colombo (and very likely also Kandy), part of the broader trade in photographic and printed views of colonial Ceylon.
Imported Indian Coolies
Indian workers were brought over by the British to the West Indian island of Jamaica between 1845 and 1917. Roughly 37,000 people were brought over under an indentured labor system, where they had to work on mostly sugar estates, where strict
Mohamedan Woman
Howard Woody, a pioneer researcher of early German printing postcard technologies writes of this postcard that the collotype’s “light hues accent the woman’s layered costumer and create an attractive luminous image that contrasts with the muted
Lala Lajpat Rai
[Original caption on front, shown here] "The blow that was hurled at us this afternoon was a nail in the coffin of the British Empire. Nobody who has seen it is ever likely to forget it. It has sunk deep into our own soul.
Bhowani Peith (Street) Poona.
"Bhowani Street" in Pune refers to a street in Bhavani Peth (also spelled "Bhowani Peith" in colonial-era usage), one of the seventeen historic peths (wards/neighborhoods) that constitute old Pune.
