Shish Mahal Fort, Lahore
One of the most ornate and lavish rooms within the Lahore Fort. Built during the Mughal emperor Shah Jahan's 17th century reign, the Shish Mahal ("Shish" means mirror) is noted for its beautiful mirror work.
1900-1909
Salutations de Kandy [Greetings from Kandy]
![Salutations de Kandy [Greetings from Kandy]](https://www.paperjewels.org/sites/default/files/styles/square_thumbnail/public/slides/greetings-kandy_0.jpg?itok=mKKetJaN "Salutations de Kandy [Greetings from Kandy]")
This was probably an advertising card for the Queen's Hotel, Kandy Lake, near the Temple of the Buddha's Tooth, and one of Sri Lanka's oldest continuously operating hotels, opened in 1869.
Edler & Krische is often misattributed as a French postcard
Mohamedan Woman
Howard Woody, a pioneer researcher of early German printing postcard technologies writes of this postcard that the collotype’s “light hues accent the woman’s layered costumer and create an attractive luminous image that contrasts with the muted
Peshawar Fort
After Ahmad Shah Durrani took Peshawar in 1747, Bala Hissar served as a royal residence for the Durrani Empire. This period is strongly associated with the fort’s role as an Afghan administrative and courtly center in the frontier city.
Oodypur. Jagmunda Palace.
Udaipur is home so many beautiful lakes and often called the "Venice of the East."
The Lake Palace, also called Jag Niwas or Jagmunda Palace, is the biggest tourist attraction in Udaipur and was constructed by Maharana Jagat Singh II in the mid-18th
Bhowani Peith (Street) Poona.
"Bhowani Street" in Pune refers to a street in Bhavani Peth (also spelled "Bhowani Peith" in colonial-era usage), one of the seventeen historic peths (wards/neighborhoods) that constitute old Pune.
Sinhalese
[Original] Cingalais Constipation ses Consequences Veritables Grains de Sante ou Docteur Franck, ([For] Constipation and its
consequences. Spirits beneficial to health from Doctor Franck.) [end]
An early advertising postcard for Doctor Franck's
Street Sweeper
Clifton & Co. published many studio-posed, ethnographic type postcards like this one, made from an albumen print with the firm's title and name inscribed in the negative and visible at the bottom of the frame on this court-sized card.
Manure Dryers, India
[Verso, in pencil] "You think your job is bad?" [end]
Cooly Woman with her child
Postmarked Calcutta January 12, 1912 and sent to Ed Froehmer [sp?], Seward, Nebraska, USA.
[Verso] "Calcutta, India January 1012. This is the way that an Indian mother carries her child."
