The Bazaar of City Multan, India
A rare postcard of one of the oldest and largest cities in southern Punjab. Note the telephone wires floating just above the stalls.
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.
Shaukat Ali was charged with sedition in Karachi for encouraging Indian army troops to not serve in the British army, and sent to prison in Karachi's central jail.
A little known aspect of the postcard "revolution" was the secret language of conveying messages by positioning stamps in select ways; this postcard served as a Rosetta stone for sender and receiver alike.
[Original caption] Grand Hotel Avenue – The town of Simla is beautifully laid out.
There are few postcards available of Indians who worked, often as indentured labor, in other British possessions before Independence.
Now the Amitabh Bachan Sports Complex, this resolute example of Raj architecture was constructed in 1879. The architect was Richard Bayne, and the designs came from Professor Gamble at the precursor to what is now the Victoria and Albert Museum.
This promotional postcard for the British Empire Exhibition in London in 1924 was signed by Ernest Maitland Coffin (1868-1944), apparently a successful commercial artist.