Plague Patients.
Illustrated postcards actually came to Mumbai at an inauspicious moment.
B & W
Master's Whisky
These kinds of offensive postcards seem to have been part of series by both Higginbotham's and their main competitor in South India, Spencer & Co.
Moplahs, Malabar
A rare postcard of Moplah men. Moplahs were the descendants of Arab traders on the Malabar coast and local women.
View in Sukkur Bazaar
Bremner was among the very earliest postcard publishers of SIndh, and included a handful of views of Sukkur, a town not often photographed by colonial residents.
The Chiefs of Baluchistan Leaving Darbar Hall Quetta
Sandeman Memorial Hall in the background was built expressly to bring together Balochistan's various tribal leaders to negotiate and settle disputes between themselves and the British Indian government.
Dancing Girls of Peshawar Ready For The Dance
Every city had its female dancers, or "nautch women" and they were often showed with the musicians who played, assisted and sometimes protected and managed them as well.
Darjeeling. The Bazaar.
A black and white version of the colorized postcard Darjeeling. The Bazaar.
Bachha Sakoo The Bandit King of Afghanistan and his Comrades Stoned to Death at Kabul
Contemporary accounts of how Hamid Kalkani died are unclear. Nadir Khan is said to have chased him to his village in October 1929 where he was stoned to death by residents which this postcard may show.
Scene of the Hooghly, Calcutta.
Handwritten on the back is a part of a longer message that discusses the plague then present in Bombay: “A poor soldier got it but recovered a Sergeant’s child died of it & Major Murray has been very ill and is only a little better.
The Baby and his Goat. Jaipur.
This postcard by the Jaipur-based firm Gobindram Oodeyram shows a little boy with the teat of a goat somewhat crudely photoshopped into his mouth (probably two superimposed images). To a European buying the postcard in colonial times, it would seem
