Toddy Drawers
Toddy or palm wine as made from sap collected by climbers like this one in little pouches; fermentation was so fast in the humid air that a mildly alcoholic drink could be had in a few hours.
Chennai Madras
In the Market, Bangalore.
Bangalore is well-known for sprawling shopping malls, although in British times it was largely a cantonment town and only recently has become an information technology hub and one of the cities most prominently linked to the outsourcing of Western
Views of Madras
An early multi-view collotype of Madras, with five separate photographs, in a decorative flower frame.
A Wet Day, Madras
An evocative postcard that manages to communicate the experience of rain.
A Coconut Seller, Madras
The coconut is a large palm, growing to 30m tall, and is found throughout the tropical world, for decoration as well as for its many culinary and non-culinary uses; virtually every part of the coconut palm has some human use.
Extracting Gold, Cyanide Works, Kolar Fields
One can only imagine the enormous costs that accrued to the workers involved.
Tanjore Palace
Higginbotham's was the rare bookseller which also became a prominent postcard publisher, probably the leading one in South India.
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