[Scene around Karla, Maharashtra]
An unusual card from The Ravi Varma Press which shows two women walking among a crowd in a makeshift bazaar, part of a set of similar cards.
An unusual card from The Ravi Varma Press which shows two women walking among a crowd in a makeshift bazaar, part of a set of similar cards.
Postcards actually developed in part from advertising cards.
[Original caption] A Street Scene, Pydowni Junction. A typical street scene in Bombay. [end]
A moneylender strutting through the public square, carrying the ominous red books he uses to chase debtors through the courts, the vibrant city his backdrop.
[Original caption] Bird's Eye View of Fort from Taj Mahal Hotel, Bombay.
A very early postcard printed in India (postmarked Dec. 1902 in one instance) by the lithographer W. Cooper. The chance discovery of another photographic postcard shows how a scene like this was composed.
A postcard where the angle and architecture combine effectively to represent the role an institution once played in India's political and social life.
An atypical postcard that shows a ship in dry dock.
A rare landscape postcard by M.V. Dhurandhar; the vast majority of the seventy or so postcards he painted during this period were of people. Rajabai Clock Tower is visible on the right.
[Original caption] Bombay, unlike most of the other shipping towns of importance, is not situated upon a river.