1930-1939

Sometimes postcards were journalism, in this case a real-time view of the deadliest earthquake in British India, which killed somewhere between 30,000 and 60,000 people in the capital of Balochistan on May 23, 1935. Butani was a military photographer

Known locally as the "Kala Chapra" or "Black Shed," this enormous structure constructed in the late 1920s was considered one of the largest structures in the British Empire.

D.B. Taraporevala & Sons, Booksellers, Newsagents and Statioers at 190 Hornby Road was a Mumbai fixture for much of the 19th and 20th century, the place where foreign periodicals, books and newspapers flowed into the city and inspired artists like

One of those beautiful embossed lithographic cards the Germans were fond of producing that depicted, probably in actual size, coinage and their equivalencies from different parts of the world.