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
![[Villagers at Well]](https://www.paperjewels.org/sites/default/files/styles/square_thumbnail/public/slides/villagers-well_0.jpg?itok=vLDASFd9 "[Villagers at Well]")
A really special postcard, a view of rural life usually invisible on to these casual slips of paper.
Millions of refugees moved between the new states of India and Pakistan in 1947, and Johnny Stores, run by the photographer Janki das since about the 1920s, was one of the rare photographers of both sides. His Wharf, Karachi actually shows Hindus
Nestor Gianaclis, like D. Macropolo & Co., another Greek-owned firm, was not primarily a photographer so much as a Greek tobacco merchant whose Calcutta office also issued collotype picture postcards and photographic prints in the early 1900s.
A rare candid shot of a zoo in colonial times. Apparently, Peshawar had a small zoo in the those times located in Shahi Bagh (the “Royal Garden”), a government-owned garden being developed into public pleasure grounds.
Likely the main ascent from the plains up to Conoor and onward to Ooty, the ascent into the Nilgiris, and today better known as Kallar Ghat/the Conoor Ghat Road. Nicolas & Co.
"The Mall, far from serving merely as a site for commerce or recreation, functioned as a symbolic and material articulation of imperial hierarchy, controlling access to commodities and visibility, and reinforcing notions of prestige, superiority, and
A captivating blend of technologies: in the back railway cars, transporting bags of wheat which find their way on to camel carts with brand name rubber tires. Camels were a popular means of transport in Karachi through the 1950s.
Postmarked Bombay,
The Pakistani poet Daud Kamal (1935-1987) has a poem entitled Water-Carrier:
More patches on his clothes
than on the empty goatskin
slung across his shoulder.
Like the others
he waits his turn
at the Municipal tap.
Twice a day
he delivers water
free
A very popular image, also published in a hand-colored version by D. Macopolo & Co.
Postmarked with no message at the Sea Post Office, likely Bombay May 6, 1905 and sent to Miss Adelaide McConway (sp?), 252 Bishop St., Montreal, Canada.
