[Verso] "Mission Hospital, Kolar, India.
Dear aunt Connie:
This will not reach you until after your birthday. Am sorry I did not get it off before. Hope you have a very happy day. This center piece was made in a Mission School. Much Love, Edith.
A delicately hand tinted view of Akbar's Tomb outside Agra, built by his son Jehanghir between 1605 and 1613.
Given how ubiquitous the trope of snake charmers and India was in popular Western culture in the early 20th century, it is refreshing to find that they are not as common in postcards as one might expect. True, major publishers like Clifton & Co.
The Hindustan Review, edited by Sachchidananda Sinha, Bar-at-Law, and published from Allahabad in July, 1910, writes:
"A word may be added here as to social and intellectual life of Allahabad.
An early keyhole postcard view of Marine Drive, probably from a photograph made in the 1890s.
Mr. Hartmann did good publicity in The Picture Postcard, a London-based magazine for early British postcard collectors and enthusiasts. Most likely its editor E. W.
Among the most interesting of postcards to come out before Partition are the hand tinted real photographs printed in Germany from Nanumal Riayatmal of Sukkur in Sindh.
Hospitals found there way on to many postcards, symbols of progress that probably reflected colonial health concerns.
A lone cart contemplates entering the Khyber Pass on this early color postcard; nearly as daunting is the white space awaiting the sender's message.
Founded in 1861, this Roman Catholic-run school is one of the oldest in Karachi.
