137 Assorted vintage postcards on Indian people, trades, costumes, dancing girls, customs and social life
Collection of 137 postcards on Indian People, Trades, Costumes, Dancing Girls, Customs and Social Life many coloured, Circa 1900-1940s
Each measuring 3.5 x 5.5 in (9 x 14 cm)
Postcards were the Instagram of the early 20th century - Dr Stephen Putnam Hughes
"Postcards were to the people in 1900 what the Internet was to the world in 2000. Postcards can be thought of as the world's first mass transmission of images. The world went from thousand to a billion postcards in a very short span of time, and the finest painters from all over the world got involved in this." - Omar Khan
The postcards in this lot are from the Raj period and include gems such as early postcards from M V Dhurandhar, as well as studios such as Higginbotham & Co., Madras and Bangalore; Clifton & Co., Bombay; The Phototype Co., Bombay; All British Picture Co., Ltd; Wiele’s Studio, Bangalore; etc.
The lot covers the key themes from People, Trades, Costumes, Dancing Girls, Customs and Social Life of India.
List of Postcards:-
• A Snake Charmer with his Mongoose, T 37
• An Ayah, T 94
• Hindu Woman Riding Bicycle, T 108
• A Mohamedan, T 90
• Snake Charmer, No. 102
• A Model of Canarese Beauty
• Barber
• A Fakir at Delhi, T 3
• A Fakir, T 26clean
• Hindi Girl, T 40
• Parsi Athletes, T 103
• Thibetan Merchant
• Ramamurtie under Elephant
• Darjeeling. Lama Beggar, T 439
• A Bhutia Lady, B 3001
• A Hindu Family, T 43
• Mahratta Women, T 92
• A Cooly, T 68
• A Mahratti, T 72
• Snake Charmer, T 9
• Tibetan Mendicant, T 3502
• Native Dancing Girl, T 30
• Bhistee. (Water Carrier)
• Innocents Abroad
• Hindu Women, T 100
• A Hindu Lady, T 25
• Milk Woman, T 88
• Darjeeling. Water Carriers, D 423
• Brahmin Woman, T 19
• Hindu Woman, T 47
• H.H.Late Maharajah of Bundy, T 89
• Hindu Women (Chums)
• Nautch Girls, T 67, Clifton & Co., Bombay
• Bhutia Womann, T 116
• Basket Bargain, no. 106
• Water Carrier
• Naga Man, T 15
• A Parsi, T 8
• The Watchers
• Mehtar (Sweeper)
• Hindu Mahratta Priest, T 57
• Hindu Woman
• A Jain Priest
• Dhoby Straining Starch, Madras, no. 86, Higginbotham & Co., Madras and Bangalore
• Little Sister, Madras, no.67, Higginbotham & Co., Madras and Bangalore
• Kitchen Damsels, Madras, no. 75, Higginbotham & Co., Madras and Bangalore
• A Table Servant, Clifton & Co., Bombay
• Market Poona
• Malee. (Gardener)
• Monkey Trainer, T 27
• Darjeeling. Group of Lamas, D 433
• Nautch Girl at her Toilet, T 28, Nestor Gianaclis Ltd., Kolkata
• The Ruling Princes of India
• Hindu Jugglers, T 106
• Sepoy French Regiment
• Devil Dancers - India, no. 29
• Cooly cooking
• Early Birds
• Hindu Woman at Prayers, T 5
• Hard Life in India, T 23
• Group of Native Servants, T 70
• Calcutta. Baloo Wallah, C 601
• A Hindu Woman Cooking, T 77
• Hindu Girls, T 7
• A Nautch Party S. India, T 39
• The Hindu Monk
• Bhisti and his bullock
• Tread Ceremony
• A Bullock Cart
• Elephant Stucking Timber, T 55
• Buffaloes Bathing, Madras, no. 39, Higginbotham & Co., Madras and Bangalore
• Launching a Masula Boat, Madras, no. 63, Higginbotham & Co., Madras and Bangalore
• Carts loading cotton balls, T 60
• Snake Charmers
• Ghati Women Grinding Corn
• Reay Market, Poona
• An Ekka. (Indian Carriage)
• A Hindu Lady, T 123
• Garbha or Circulous Guzrat dance
• State Elephant of the Gaikwar
• A Street Scene, Madras
• A Bombay Reckla
• Fishers and Spectators, T 99
• Native Grafts on the Hooghly, Calcutta
• India - Giving out the day’s rice
• Embroiderers, The Phototype Co., Bombay
• Cotton Cart
• Native Village Darjeeling
• Master’s Tiffin. no. 95, Higginbotham & Co., Madras and Bangalore
• Bhootias
• A Ploughman
• Masullah Boat, Madras
• A Village in India, Devare & Co.
• A Catamaran, Madras, no. 76A, Higginbotham & Co., Madras and Bangalore
• Group of Famine- Stricken Victims, Clifton & Co., Bombay
• An Indian Homestead
• Elephant stacking timber
• A Reckla
• An Elephant, T 66
• A Cobbler, Clifton & Co., Bombay
• Palankeen, T 2
• A Full Load, no. 112, Higginbotham & Co., Madras and Bangalore
• Hindu Ladies playing Cards, T 34
• An India Potter at Work
• India – A Brahman priest performing worship
• Dhobies at Work, Madras, no. 40, Higginbotham & Co., Madras and Bangalore
• A Reckla, Madras, no.55, Higginbotham & Co., Madras and Bangalore
• At the Well, Madras, no. 34, Higginbotham & Co., Madras and Bangalore
• Grinding Curry Stuff, Madras, no. 80, Higginbotham & Co., Madras and Bangalore
• Curry and Rice, no. 100, Higginbotham & Co., Madras and Bangalore
• Durbar of Aurangzeb
• Dhobies at Work, T 14
• Cotton Cleaners, T 49, Clifton & Co., Bombay
• Village Scene, T 102
• Ekka, T 71
• Darjeeling. Dandy Wallahs, D 440
• Beater & Bison, T 91
• Native Cradle, T 54
• Darjeeling. A Dandy & Bearers, D 407
• Women Playing Pucheesees. (Drafts.) , T 13
• India State Carriage
• Guzerati Hindu, T 65
• Hindu Religious Beggar, T 87
• A Bhutia Woman Weaving, B 3003
• A Dhobie
• Indian Streetstuff Shop, All British Picture Co., Ltd
• Orderly
• Indian Gypsies, Madras, no. 78, Higginbotham & Co., Madras and Bangalore
• Khidamatgor (Table Boy)
• Mohamedan Girl, Wiele’s Studio, Bangalore
• Native Dancing Girl, T 69
• Greetings from India, T 64
• Uncaptioned photograph of possibly a Kashmiri Woman
• Our Baker, Madras, no. 121, Higginbotham & Co., Madras and Bangalore
• Cooly Woman with her child, T 164
• Uncaptioned photograph of possibly a Sikh Man
• Going to the Temple, Benaras
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