Srinagar, 6th Bridge
[Verso, handwritten] "C.S.MS Missionary, now retired. So sorry, I forgot to provide stamps on the envelope I posted yesterday. I enclose 2 to make amends. With love A."
1900-1909
Salaams from India
Perhaps the most popular of the "Greetings from" postcards from India was this "Salaams from" version by the large Delhi publisher, H.A. Mirza & Sons.
A Coolie in the Stocks, Hongkong
Among the more interesting postcards are those showing Indians abroad, in this case serving as police officers in Hong Kong, then also a British possession.
Conoor and Black Bridge
Postmarked May 16, 1906 in Conoor and addressed to H.E. Preisner Esqr., Gottville [sp?], Siskiyou County, California. "Dear Papa, This is a view of the little town we are staying at for a month, we live further up the mountains it is a grand place.
Female Spinning, Jaipur
While this postcard published in Jaipur may have had nothing directly to do with the Swadeshi movement then taking off in Bengal, the charkha was am emblem of that cause for self-sufficiency and using indigenous materials and processes instead of
High Court, Calcutta
[Original caption] High Court. West of Government House, Calcutta, and nearer the river, stand the Law Courts, built in 1872, and said to be modelled on the beautiful Town Hall of Ypres in Belgium. [end]
Kashmere Gate
[Original caption] Kashmere gate. Looking from the ridge whence the columns marched in 1857, when Nicholson stormed the breach in the Kashmir bastion and bought Delhi for ever with British blood.
Elephant hunting tiger [handwritten]
![Elephant hunting tiger [handwritten]](https://www.paperjewels.org/sites/default/files/styles/square_thumbnail/public/slides/tiger-hunting_0.jpg?itok=Ee9xwwdY "Elephant hunting tiger [handwritten]")
A hand painted postcard of a favorite sport for Indian Maharajahs, British colonial officials and well-heeled tourists.
Jeypore Street Scene
[Original caption] Street Scene. The city of Jeypore, situated 850 miles north-west of Calcutta, is handsomely and regularly built, and is the most important centre of Rajputana.
A Kashmiri Nautch Girl
One of the earliest postcards of a Kashmiri nautch girl, this was mailed from Chenna (Madras) on Sept. 17, 1903 to Miss Olive McMillan, St. Augustine's, Cliftonville, Margate, England: "With many Salaams from Mother."
See Clifton & Co.'s version of
