Nestle's Swiss Milk 20th Punjab Infantry
Nestle, founded in 1867, claims on its website that its relationship with India started in 1912. Cards like this from approximately 1900 are evidence that the roots of this relationship extend back earlier.
Postcard
Office Peon
The word "peon" owes its origin to the Spanish word which means laborer.
Clark's Hotel Benares
Clark's Hotel seems to have used postcard effectively to promote itself at the turn of the century.
India
This 1892 Singer Manufacturing Co. advertising card for its sewing machines is probably the very first postcard of India, even if technically it was an ad card and not meant to be mailed with a stamp and address visible on the back.
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Dreams in Stone, Temple of Halebid, Mysore State.
[Original caption] Dreams in Stone, Temple of Halebid, Mysore State. Two most remarkable temples are here, the smaller of the two, star-shaped with 16-points, had a porch that from base to top was carved with sculptures of the best Indian art.
[Rajah on Carpet]
![[Rajah on Carpet]](https://www.paperjewels.org/sites/default/files/styles/square_thumbnail/public/slides/rajah-on-carpet_0.jpg?itok=f_34hkeQ "[Rajah on Carpet]")
A hand painted postcard that – if it was also purchased in Ahmedabad, from where it was sent – suggests that these rare postcards relative to the mass-printed ones were also available outside of Bombay. Postmarked 30 November 1908 and sent to Mr.
Calcutta
Kalighat - Burning Ghat - Nautch Girl - Kali
One of the earliest "Greetings from Calcutta" postcards, by the German or Austrian photographer Werner Roessler who was based in the city and had the lithographic card printed in Austria from his
The Chief's [Aitchison] College, Lahore
![The Chief's [Aitchison] College, Lahore](https://www.paperjewels.org/sites/default/files/styles/square_thumbnail/public/slides/aitchison-college_0.jpg?itok=nEdo5MIb "The Chief's [Aitchison] College, Lahore")
Better known as Aitchison College, the name it was given shortly after the foundation stone of this building was lain in 1886, "Chief's College" still continued to be used long afterwards given that it was originally founded in Ambala as a school for
Rumi Darwaza [Gate]
![Rumi Darwaza [Gate]](https://www.paperjewels.org/sites/default/files/styles/square_thumbnail/public/slides/rumi-gate_0.jpg?itok=C5qqmJk9 "Rumi Darwaza [Gate]")
This 60 foot high gate, still very much in use, was built in the late 18th century by the rulers of Awadh as a copy of the Bab-e-Humayun in Istanbul.
Rajkot City Gate
An unusual lithographic card of a rarely postcarded city, one where Gandhi spent his early years in school. Rajkot is now the 4th largest city in Gujarat with a population approaching 2 million.
