The Rainy Season, Nainital
A unusual weather-related postcard where the coloring of the clouds in the sky would likely have been one by hand.
Nature
General View of the City, Fort and Mosque, Srinagar (Kashmir)
Srinagar is famous for its scenic locales and the Jhelum River that meanders through a large part of the 2,000 year old city.
Murree View From Above Hotel
One of the popular postcard views of this hillstation now in Pakistan and once on the major route to Kashmir from Punjab. Murree adheres tightly to a steep hillside. Note how the Protestant Church is on top, and the "native bazaar" descends below.
Public Gardens - Bassein
A quiet postcard, taken in the city now known as Pathein, which the British occupied after the First Anglo-Burmese Was in 1826.
Kasauli Hill
A very nicely composed collotype, with the road leading the eye into the dense scene from the foreground.
Mali, the Gardener
A colonial offering, on a rare lithographic card, both obsequious and a caricature of the snotty memsahib.
Icicles, Simla
An exceptional painterly, abstract postcard. Note the ladder at the top.
Srinagar, 6th Bridge
[Verso, handwritten] "C.S.MS Missionary, now retired. So sorry, I forgot to provide stamps on the envelope I posted yesterday. I enclose 2 to make amends. With love A."
The Cookboat
A self-published postcard by Miss Barne of St. Ebbas, Madras [Chennai], apparently an amateur painter.
Cawnpore - Ganges Canal view.
Kanpur, known as Cawnpore before 1948, is one of the larger cities in the north Indian state of Uttar Pradesh. Once mainly a cantonment town, and scene of much fighting in 1857, today it is an important industrial center.
