City Line To and From India
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.
1900-1909
Simla, Annandale
"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
Betel Leaf Seller, Colombo
A wonderfully posed studio shot by Plate & Co., the well-known Colombo postcard publisher and portrait artist.
Main Street with Pigeons in the foreground, Jaipur
A very popular Jaipur postcard, with pigeons even occupying the top of the dome on the right.
A Ward in Plague Hospital showing Patients, Bombay.
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
Damayanti
[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
Hindu Temple Colombo
[Original caption] Hindoo Temple, Colombo. In the Pettah or native quarter of Colombo is Sea Street, and in Sea Street are twin Hindoo temples, one of which is shown here.
Ladhakis and Yaks, Scinde Valley, Kashmir
It is to Bremner's credit that he managed to capture some of the most fleeting figures on camera, even if in rich, "picturesque" surroundings like this one where their presence added context and measure to images (and the trade that flowed through
Goan Beauty
Most likely a dancer given her anklets, Goa, as a Portuguese Colony, was not well-represented in British Indian postcards.
Madras, A Road Scene.
[Original caption] This is a road in the thickly-populated native quarter of Black Town, west of the Esplanade.
