Barian Bazaar (Summer)
A quintessential bazaar near an army base next to the hill station of Murree. From an albumen photograph as the inscribed title and photographer's name on the glass plate show.
A quintessential bazaar near an army base next to the hill station of Murree. From an albumen photograph as the inscribed title and photographer's name on the glass plate show.
This is probably a Kodak real photo postcard taken in Saddar Bazaar in Rawalpindi. On the back is written "Pindi City I am standing on the road." One can see a British soldier bottom center facing the camera, left arm on his hip.
[Verso] "Dear Mabel I wrote you a letter and I didn't know Moands [sp?] address properly I hope you received it alright. Edgar"
Among the earliest postcards of Bombay from a photograph. One can see the title and photographer inscribed at the bottom of the original glass negative, and the hand-tinting is done in large blocks.
A candid Delhi shot by a little-known photographer.
The Round Temple of Mumbai is also known as the Gol Dewal, on what is now Sardar Vallabhbhai Patel Rd. It is also famous for the stone market situated on both sides of it. This market is considered the city's oldest.
Postcard from a painting by Mortimer Menpes for the book INDIA by Flora Ann Steel. Published by A. & C. Black & Co.
Of the nine Josef Hoffman artist-signed postcards of India published by a Viennese firm in 1898 (here in an English version for Thacker & Co.), this one is the hardest to find, why is unclear.
A hand-coloured postcard of Delhi by one of the earliest London-based publishers of Indian postcards.
Probably one of the earliest if not the earliest postcard of Leh, capital of the former Kingdom of Ladakh. Little is known about R. E. Shorter, a photographer with offices in Sialkot, Punjab, on the route to Kashmir, and Kashmir.