Greetings from Bombay
From an early "Greetings from" series by D.M. Macropolo & Co., a renowned Raj tobacconist with retail stores in Kolkata and Mumbai.
From an early "Greetings from" series by D.M. Macropolo & Co., a renowned Raj tobacconist with retail stores in Kolkata and Mumbai.
From an unusual later lithographic series, with some photographs by Raja Deen Dayal, and many of areas like this one around Hyderabad and including events like Lord Curzon's visit in 1903 to the State, it is nonetheless not at all clear that Dayal
This so-called "chromo-collotype" card was created by running an image derived from a black and white photograph through multiple color runs, after each color had dried, creating rich and translucent images.
One of the earliest postcards of India, Calcutta, published by W. Rossler, a German or Austrian photographer in the city in 1897. Lithograph, Court sized, Printed in Austria. Undivided back.
Founded in 1861, this Roman Catholic-run school is one of the oldest in Karachi.
Sheikh Mujibur Rahman, also known as Bangabandhu, the leader of Bangladesh's Independence movement, had this description of visiting the Taj in 1946:
"We left the hotel soon after we had taken our baths since we were all eagerly looking forward to
A rare postcard of one of the oldest and largest cities in southern Punjab. Note the telephone wires floating just above the stalls.
Founded in 1875, now known as the Zoological Garden in Alipore, this is the oldest zoo in India and an early pioneer among world zoos in captive breeding.
Presented by the Women of Bombay Presidency, this postcard was used to raise funds and support the British and Indian troops fighting in Mesopotamia (modern Iraq) against Turkish forces in World War I.
A curious and perhaps not inadvertent confrontation between a Parsi priest and Queen Victoria, he seems to be asking her for something.