Monday, November 21, 2022
15 Rare Images of Madras
15 Golden Images From Madras
_Senate-House-and-Marine-Villa-Madras- Madras, late 19th century, attributed to Nicholas Penn te-19th-century-attributed-to-Nicholas-Penn-1024x714
A view of Madras encompassing Law Court Buildings, 1900s,
Baker – Madras (Chennai)
Group of Domestic Servants – Madras (Chennai) – 1870
Higginbotham's Bookstore
Jalakandeswarar Temple, Fort Vellore, late 19th century,
Madras Central Station
Madras harbour with a distant view of Royapuram Railway Stn (building on the extreme right), late 19th century,
Madras was the only place in the empire to agitate and remove a British statue and that too, a decade before freedom dawned. The statue was of James Neil of the Madras Fusiliers Regiment, who played a m
Madras, 1848, engraving
MK Gandhi in Madras, 1930s,
N.S.C Bose Road opp. High Court (old Esplanade)
Pier at Madras harbour, 1870s, unidentified photographer
Port of Madras with a view of Parry’s Corner, the harbour and the pier, late 19th century,
Rice bags on the beach during the famine of 1877,
The Mahatma visited Madras 14 times over 50 years
Rare Images From Pakistan
15 Golden Images From Pakistan History
1968 – Crown Prince Hassan Bin Talal, younger brother of King Hussein of Jordan smiles with his bride Sarvath Ikramullah of Pakistan at their wedding in Karachi. Both met while studying in London
[C] - President of Pakistan greeted in Washington
A foreign tourist with her driver at Shalimar Gardens Lahore in 1966
A scene from Karachi The era of the 1960s
Altaf Gohar and Khalid Hassan with Noble Prize-winning Pakistani scientist Dr. Abdus Salam (center) in the late 1970s
Bhutto with mujeeb Ur Rehman the worst dark chapter would open a year after this meeting
King Faisal II of Iraq visiting 501 Workshop, Rawalpindi [Early years of Pakistan]
Muslim soldiers from whole India joining Pakistan army in Rawalpindi
Pakistani Drama Actors could have made really big if the cinema industry had prospered in the ’80s.[L to R] Jamal Shah, Talat Hussain, Faryal Gohar, and Shakeel
Prince Phillip and Queen Elizabeth visited Pakistan in 1961
The Queen attends a State Banquet held in a marquee with Ayub Khan and Prince Philip in 1961
Tramway in Karachi 1962
US President Barak Obama visited Karachi as a visiting university student and stayed with a roommate of his in Karachi (1981)
US President Richard Nixon at Taxila on 2nd August 1969
Yasir Arafat [Palestine], Mujeeb-Ur-Rehman [Bangladesh], Z.A Bhutto and Col. M Qaddafi [Libya] at Shalimar Gardens in Lahore on 23rd February 1974
Sunday, November 20, 2022
Vintage Images India
The Interesting images from British Era
c.1880s India - busy road & river bridge possibly Bangalore
c.1880s India - European couple with pony and trap, horse an
c.1890 India - British army officers - polo team
C.1890s India - pony and trap hackney carriage cab
c. 1880s India - group of European women, classical pose
Carriage drawn by oxen, gharry or gharrie, India
Festival procession car with carved statue, India
Gypsy Dancing girl, India
India - European man with a pony and trap
India - Jats, Shepherd and Robertson, 1860s
India - the Maharajah of Nabha 1860s
People around a cremation funeral pyre, India
Pony and trap and servants, British India
State Elephant of Baroda, India
Woman in carrying chair, sedan, litter, with porters, India
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