The Paper Jewels Daily Gem

A new Raj (India, Pakistan, Sri Lanka or Myanmar) postcard here, on Instagram and Facebook every 72 hours. Can also be perused as categories. Based on the book Paper Jewels Postcards from the Raj by Omar Khan (Mapin/Alkazi, 2018).

Watch our new Postcard Pearls, brief videos blending old postcards with the locations today. Watch #1 Frere Hall Karachi and #2 Sukkur: Bridge on the Indus.

Water Carrier 1904	Mount Abu. General View. ca 1908	Calcutta. New Government Offices. ca 1908
Wazir Khan's Mosque (outer part) Lahore 1910	Fruit Sellers ca 1905	Rampore Jhelum Valley, Kashmir ca 1903
No. 94 Study of a Singhalese Woman 1910	The Kutab Minar, Iron Pillar and the Great Arches, Delhi. ca 1910	Shalimar Gardens ca 1930
Eid Mubarak [Eid Greetings] ca 1930	Kandy Library ca 1908	Wazir Khan Mosque (inner part) Lahore ca 1910
Horticultural Gardens, Madras - The Screw Pine ca 1907	[Woman at loom] ca 1920	Chief's Court, Peshawar 1905
G. K. Gokhale ca 1920	"Hotel in the Camp" 1931	Royal Botanical Gardens Peradeniya, Ceylon ca 1908
The Mall, Peshawar, N.W.F.P. ca 1910	Natives Jetty, Karachi ca 1930	India Tea Growers Post Card [back] 1909
Madras Club ca 1930	Bird eye View of the city Delhi ca 1910	Cherat Hill ca 1910
Fisherman, Ceylon ca 1905	Exit of Khyber Pass into Afghanistan ca 1910	Maharajah's College, Mysore ca 1905
Imported Indian Coolies ca 1910	Upper Topa Murree 1910	Calcutta. The Site of the Black Hole. ca 1908

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