No Hobson's Choice at Taraporevala's
A clever advertising postcard from what what Bombay's leading bookseller and major postcard publisher at the turn of the century.
People
Woman On Chair
A melange of green, ink, red and yellow masterfully applied to a real photograph.
Woman In Studio
A skillfully done studio shot with real depth of field provided by the seating arrangement and sparse use of green, pink and white with a dash of glitter.
A Kashmiri Nautch Girl
[Verso] Postmarked Mount Road, Madras, 17 Sep. 1903 at 11:30 a.m. and addressed to Miss Olive McMillan, St. Augustine's, Cliftonville, Margate, England.
[Recto] "16/9/03 With Many Salaams from Mother."
The Indian Jugglers
An early postcard that unlike many of these type cards does focus the eye on the object of interest.
The Advanced Prisoner's Compound, Mesopotamia
With Best Wishes for Xmas and the New Year
The fundraising postcard by a women's group in Bombay shows Turkish prisoners likely captured in 1917 when British Indian troops captured Baghdad and other areas of modern Iraq from the Ottoman Empire.
Woman In Studio
A unusual real photo postcard that is both hand colored and has glitter finely applied to the hems of the woman's dress. She is resting her arm on a magnificent pedestal that suggests a north Indian studio, possibly in Lucknow.
Mother and Child
A very simply but effectively hand-tinted card: blue, yellow and a pink hue that connects the babies anklet and mother's right earrings.
Miss Chanda of Hyderabad
Dancers were not named frequently named; unusual too is the purple and white hand-tinting.
A Nautch Girl and Musicians
A finely hand-tinted postcard and gorgeous display of color.
