The Town Hall, City Jubbulpore [Jabalpur]
![The Town Hall, City Jubbulpore [Jabalpur]](https://www.paperjewels.org/sites/default/files/styles/square_thumbnail/public/slides/hall-jabalpur_0.jpg?itok=MOG5X0Ob "The Town Hall, City Jubbulpore [Jabalpur]")
The former Town Hall is now the Gandhi Bhawan Library and was built in an Indo-Saracenic style blending Western and Eastern elements. It was inaugurated in 1892.
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Coronation review held in June 1911 in London (Murree)
When the Prince of Wales became King George V following his father's death, the Coronation took place at Westminster Abbey in London on June 22, 1911. The event also led to a large gathering of the colonial population on the football field below the
The Delhi Gate, Fort Agra
Built during the Akber's Reign in 1599 A.D.
This massive gate was intended to intimidate possible attackers.
A Village Scene
As competition among postcard publishers intensified between 1905 and 1910, each tried to outdo the other with new formats offered by the German printers who served much of the Indian market.
Baroch Station K.S. Ry. (India)
For a beautiful postcard like this, we might reach for an excerpt by Nirad Chaudhri (1897-1999). Even if written about a different railway station, in East Bengal, it shows how impactful trains were to those in India at the turn of the century.
The Rainy Season, Nainital
A unusual weather-related postcard where the coloring of the clouds in the sky would likely have been one by hand.
Shri Pratap Singh Museum, Srinagar (Kashmir)
Conceived in 1889, and opened in 1898, the museum is said to contain 80,000 objects from Kashmir and surrounding areas, including important artifacts from excavations led by the Archaeological Survey of India (A.S.I.) during the early part of the
Round Temple, Sandhurst Road, Bombay
The Round Temple of Mumbai is also known as the Gol Dewal, on what is now Sardar Vallabhbhai Patel Rd. It is also famous for the stone market situated on both sides of it. This market is considered the city's oldest.
Chandni Chawk Street, Delhi (India)
[Original caption on back] This famous street was built by Jahanara Begum daughter of Emperor Shah Jehan. It extends 1520 yards in length from Delhi Fort to Fatehpuri Mosque, and is 40 yards [wide].
Tomb of Shamsuddin Altamash, Delhi.
[Original caption] Built during the reign of Sultan Rukunuddin and Sultana Razia Begam in 1215 A.D. [end]
Shamsuddin Altamash, wasa 13th century pre-Mughal Muslim ruler of north India, was is better known today as Iltutmish, the third ruler of the
