On The Pipeline
The pipeline under a 4 kilometer walk between Nathiagali and Ayubia is still a popular, spectacular walk and was apparently first built in 1851 and improved in 1930.
1900-1909
Missionary Catechists of Mary Immaculate Mymensingh Hindustan On Tour at the Home of the Garros
Many of the very few postcards of Bangladesh from pre-Partition times are by Catholic missionaries in Mymensingh in particular, here shown incongruously on a bullock cart.
[Original French title] Catechistes Missionnaires de Marie Immaculee -
Ganesh
This hand-painted postcard has this message written across the back in ink, likely by a European owner: "Ganesh, Ganpati the elephant-headed God. The Hindus invoke his name when they commence any important business.
Sir Pertab Singh [Pratab Singh of Idar]
![Sir Pertab Singh [Pratab Singh of Idar]](https://www.paperjewels.org/sites/default/files/styles/square_thumbnail/public/slides/pratap-singh-colour.jpg?itok=uXeXaXC1 "Sir Pertab Singh [Pratab Singh of Idar]")
A stunning example of what a well-tinted, non-discoloured postcard looks like some 120 years later.
Sir Pratab Singh (1845-1922) made it on to many postcards as one of the best known Indian officers in the British Indian army, having served from the
Great Eastern Hotel, Calcutta
Around the time this postcard was published, H. St.J. B. Philby, the father of the famous British spy Kim Philby (born in Ambala in 1912) and then serving in India, wrote in his memoir Arabian Days (Robert Hale, 1948):
"The Great Eastern Hotel of
Narsingarh Entrance to Old Fort
[Original caption] Narsingarh–Entrance to Old Fort. Narsingarh is the capital of the state of that name in Central India.
Village Scene
A unusually upturned (emptied) cart with yoke pointing to sky.
Preaching by Riverside, Chittagong Hill Tracts
A rather early real photo postcard from what is now Bangladesh, a part of British India that is vastly under presented in postcard production.
Goorkha Soldiers
These Gurkha soldiers were possibly photographed in the firm's Darjeeling studio (opened 1890) or Simla a few years later.
Vernag Sacred Stream, Kashmir
Postmarked Rawalpindi on November 27, 1907 and addressed to Mrs. A.A. Frears [sp?], WInthrop Arc., New Haven, Connecticut, U.S.A.: "Rawalpindi, Nov. 26 A very Merry Xmas & Happy New Year to you all.– Lovingly, C.B. Porter."
This sacred stream lies
