Famine relief Work. Digging the big well
While it is unclear where and when this postcard was taken, it could have been in 1899-1900 when there was a large famine in Hyderabad with relief works photographed by Raja Lala Deen Dayal.
1900-1909
Cordite Factory, Aravankudu
The Cordite Factory in Aruvankadu, India, is a significant defense establishment with a rich history and important role in India's ordnance production.
Old Fort, Delhi
[Original caption] Repaired by the Emperor Humayun in 1540 A.D. According to tradition founded by Pandav King, about 1400 B.C. [end]
A postcard which illustrates how intertwined the printing and publishing of postcards could be among firms.
A Mohamedan Woman
This is the same woman in Dancing Girl, apparently photographed at the same time with Lucknow's Chutter Manzil in the background, but here given a blander description.
Opium Shop
Although opium was a major crop in the rise of the East India Company, and India the major producer of opium sent to China, with production carefully taxed and recorded, barely a handful of postcards seem to acknowledge the crop and its manufacture.
Tuck's, Lahore [Envelope]
![Tuck's, Lahore [Envelope]](https://www.paperjewels.org/sites/default/files/styles/square_thumbnail/public/slides/tucks-lahore-envelope.jpg?itok=b73iKZFg "Tuck's, Lahore [Envelope]")
What did a postcard envelope look like? During the early "Golden Age" of postcards, they often came in sets of six, a remnant perhaps of lithographic printing presses where 4 sets of 6 images fit well into the bow that was used to imprint the paper.
A Lady in Dandy
While the word "dandy" suggests being fashionable, and may be a secondary meaning, the word is said to actually come from "dandi" or the Hindi/Urdu word for stick, which are used to distribute the woman's weight across them men's shoulders.
Another
Wheat Export - Kemari, Karachi
By 1899, Karachi had become the largest wheat and cotton exporting port in South Asia. The port's significance in wheat exports grew rapidly, and by 1910, Karachi handled greater quantities of wheat than any other port in the British Empire.
Sudder Bazaar, Rawalpindi
Postmarked [illegible date] Rawalpindi, addressed to Miss. L. Ballinger, Montrose House, 155 Uxbridge Road, Shepherd's Bush, London, England, with this message on the back:
"This place is the same as a Town in England I Remain Your Old Dear Best."
Jill In The Box
A thematically most unusual postcard.
