3. How Sweet you are!
The third card in Dhurandhar's series about a new pretty maid who comes into a middle-class household. Note the chapati flour handprints on the husband's back. [Next]
The third card in Dhurandhar's series about a new pretty maid who comes into a middle-class household. Note the chapati flour handprints on the husband's back. [Next]
The fourth card in Dhurandhar's series about a new pretty maid who comes into a middle-class household. [Next]
The fifth card in Dhurandhar's series about a new pretty maid who comes into a middle-class household. [Next]
[Original caption] Madras, Date Palms. This is a corner, probably of the People's Park at Madras, which the city owes to energy of its sometime Governor, Sir Charles Trevelyan.
One of the reasons that postcards became so popular around the turn of the century was because of the growth of shipping and railway lines that let people and postcards move rapidly from place to place.
"There is possibly no name connected with Simla which to thousands of Anglo-Indians, past and present, can revive more memories of a pleasant nature than that of Annandale." writes Edward Buck, the longtime resident and master chronicler of the
A wonderfully posed studio shot by Plate & Co., the well-known Colombo postcard publisher and portrait artist.
A very popular Jaipur postcard, with pigeons even occupying the top of the dome on the right.
When the bubonic plague struck Bombay in the 1890s, postcards were used, in part, by the business community to communicate that all was okay, and that patients were being well taken care of in facilities like this one with clean interiors and an
[Original caption] Damayanti is creeping stealthily to catch the golden Hansa. [end]
In the Mahabharata Hansa, the swan, extolls the virtues of King Nala to her and says "If the peerless wed the peerless—blessed must the union be," in one of the