[Lord and Lady Curzon, Kashmir Gate]
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[Original pre-printed caption] King Edward was today proclaimed Emperor of India. Lord Curzon, whose photograph and that of his wife are shown here, represented the King.
1900-1909
Plague Patients.
Illustrated postcards actually came to Mumbai at an inauspicious moment.
Converted and unconverted Pariah
The word "Pariah" owes its origin to the Pariah caste of the Hindu society of India.
Too hot to write this week, the sun has dried up all the ink.
Moorli Dhur & Sons, at Ambala, a railway junction 130 miles away from Lahore, dominated the Punjab postcard market by 1910. Perhaps because of its distribution clout, it published a humorous series on different aspects of life for colonial foot
Moplahs, Malabar
A rare postcard of Moplah men. Moplahs were the descendants of Arab traders on the Malabar coast and local women.
View in Sukkur Bazaar
Bremner was among the very earliest postcard publishers of SIndh, and included a handful of views of Sukkur, a town not often photographed by colonial residents.
Dhobi (Washerman)
Another evocative card by M.V. Dhurandhar injects personality into the roving washerman. In the background is an edifice of the "new" Bombay while in the foreground we see the age-old profession of washermen cleaning the resident's laundry.
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Massacre Ghat, Cawnpore
On the back of this card, showing one of the most memorable places to colonial residents from the Uprising of 1857, its significance is explained in this handwritten message: "“Dear Lill, This is the place where “During the Mutiny” the Women and
Scene of the Hooghly, Calcutta.
Handwritten on the back is a part of a longer message that discusses the plague then present in Bombay: “A poor soldier got it but recovered a Sergeant’s child died of it & Major Murray has been very ill and is only a little better.
The Baby and his Goat. Jaipur.
This postcard by the Jaipur-based firm Gobindram Oodeyram shows a little boy with the teat of a goat somewhat crudely photoshopped into his mouth (probably two superimposed images). To a European buying the postcard in colonial times, it would seem
