Soldiers' Married Quarters, Peshawar
Note how this advertisement for family life in the cantonment shows a woman and pram on the verandah.
1900-1909
Kasauli Hill
A very nicely composed collotype, with the road leading the eye into the dense scene from the foreground.
Group of Indian Fakirs
A very early postcard of fakirs or sadhus, usually shown individually in close-up. Combridge & Co.
Government House, Calcutta
[Original caption] Government House - Calcutta has been called a City of palaces: Government House is the Palace of the Viceroy.
The Bhils
A variety of Adivasi people (as well as officials and a soldier in the center) as part of a rich forest surrounding. Hobson-Jobson (1906) gave this definition
"BHEEL, (p. 91) BHEEL, n.p. Skt. Bhilla; H. Bhīl. The name of a race inhabiting the hills
A Potter
One of the most ancient of occupations, showing in the background what must be the larger human ecosystem that depends on the potter's labor.
A Begging Fakir Punjab
[Original caption] A Begging Fakir.
Dhurmtollah Masjid [Mosque], Calcutta.
![Dhurmtollah Masjid [Mosque], Calcutta.](https://www.paperjewels.org/sites/default/files/styles/square_thumbnail/public/slides/dhurmtollah-road_0.jpg?itok=y4QxuwkE "Dhurmtollah Masjid [Mosque], Calcutta.")
[Original caption] Dhurmtollah Musjid. One of the busiest localities of Calcutta. It is noticeable that in Dhurmtollah Lane, the names on the shops and offices are all native names while close by in Dhurmtollah Street they are chiefly European.
The Pundit Priest, Bawan Sacred Tank, Kashmir
A nicely-composed Bremner photograph at a sacred site in Kashmir, with the priest holding a rosary and reading on a diagonal closed at the bottom left of the vignette.
[Post Office English Mail Expected on]
![[Post Office English Mail Expected on]](https://www.paperjewels.org/sites/default/files/styles/square_thumbnail/public/slides/english-mail_0.jpg?itok=fxht_wCj "[Post Office English Mail Expected on]")
An early real photo postcard of a post office with signs indicating the schedule for mail coming from England. Sir Malcolm Darling wrote about the importance of this mail when he was a young I.C.S.
