Bombay Native Bazaar
Bourne & Shepherd are said to have begun their photographic activities in 1840, a year after the invention of photography (see Macmillan, Seaports of India and Ceylon, 1928, p.
Collotype
Nagarkhana Gate, Fort, Belgaum
Shriniwas Mahadeo & Sons on Church Road in Belgaum (now Belagavi, Karnataka) published a number of exceptional cards of the ruins of Nagarkhana Gate. Note the red coloring on a few flowers, applied by stencil.
Scrawled in pencil on the back of this
The Pykara Falls, Nilgiris
Pykara is not far from Ooty, and was a popular South Indian postcard subject. Sacred to the Todas, the Pykara River is also where one of India's first hydroelectric power plants was commissioned in the 1930s.
The Well at Sultan Nizamuddeen. Delhi.
The Well at Sultan Nizamuddin in Delhi was constructed in 1321 in honor of Shaikh Nizamuddin Auliya (1236-1325) a SUfi saint who arrived in India long before the Mughals and preached a religion of love and mysticism.
Baramullah, Kashmir.
An almost painterly postcard when one examines the detail in the foreground of men and women workers, pounding and transporting grain; there are even people at the top left doing something under the tree.
A Group of Ayahs
A very evocative studio portrait of three – instead of the usual single - ayah which, intentionally or not, hints at something of the pathos of their work.
Albert Hall, Front view. Jaipur.
Albert Hall was opened in 1887 and designed by the British architect Sir Swinton Jacob.
Kashmir Nautch Girl
A postcard that shows off the great detail achievable in the collotype printing process.
Coonoor
An unusual artist-signed postcard of All Saints Church in Coonoor, established in 1854. Very finely done, it is among the limited examples British amateur artist trying their hand at something often self-published on a postcard.
Thibetan [Tibetan] Woman, Darjeeling
![Thibetan [Tibetan] Woman, Darjeeling](https://www.paperjewels.org/sites/default/files/styles/square_thumbnail/public/slides/darjeeling-woman_0.jpg?itok=zqS4goau "Thibetan [Tibetan] Woman, Darjeeling")
Clare Harris in her book Photography and Tibet (Reaktion Books, 2016) writes of this postcard, "a portrait of a young woman that features prominently in The Buddhism of Tibet as a generic illustration of Tibetan femininity implies that she'd been
