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Hindu Woman.

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

Mahatma Gandhi

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.

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