The Harvest
One of those postcards which remind you what an exceptional artist M.V. Dhurandhar was. In the midst of a harvest, with giant sheaves of the crop as if pulled apart like curtains, stands a woman in red with sickle in hand.
People
An Indian Village
According to the Indian census of 2001, 74% of the population of India lived in 638,365 different villages.
Ahmedabad Hindu
An lithographic postcard, published in India, possibly by "Haji Yusuf Haji Mohammed. Pictures, Post-cards & Cutlery Merchant. Grant Road Cross-Lane.
An Ayah
[Original caption] An Ayah - The term ayah may be applied both to nurses for children and for ladies maids.
Footwear of Nations, 10 Designs - No. 4 India
An American card distills the perfect poise between East and West that a sophisticated advertising card can contain. The 1906 card by a rubber manufacturer shows rubber shoes facing off with Mughal footwear. In the distance is a palace.
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
Amphitheatre, Coronation Durbar, Delhi
A nicely framed view of the 1911 Durbar, with an Impressionist's blend of hats and heads, the first and only which a British monarch George V attended and was honored under an Oriental pavilion. It was the high noon of postcards too.
The Deccan Postal Service
[Original French] La Poste Au Deccan. [end]
Kunzli Freres was a Swiss company known for high-quality lithographic printing, and this was part of a series of postcards celebrating the way mail was delivered around the world.
A Nair Lady, Malabar
Early postcards from the Malabar Coast are uncommon.
A Toddy Drawer, Madras
A popular figure specific to early South Indian postcards is the toddy drawer. Palm wine was made from sap collected from trees in little pouches.
