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 Some Clicks From The British Raj

A rare 1900 postcard depicting a children’s fete at an exhibition in Bombay, now Mumbai

A rare old 1917 print of the Prince of Wales Museum as a hospital in WWI Bombay (Mumbai). Since the Prince of Wales Museum’s construction was nearly completed when WWI broke out in 1914

An old 1887 glass slide photo showing a glimpse of British women in colonial India

An old 1888 photo gives a glimpse of a party at Government House in Guindy, Madras (or Chennai)

An old 1897 print of Queen Victoria’s Diamond Jubilee Celebration in Bombay, now Mumbai. Queen Victoria’s husband Prince Albert died in 1861

Old 1902 stereophoto of King Edward VII’s coronation prayer service in progress at Simla. The coronation prayer service was held at Christ Church in Simla (or Shimla) on June 26, 1902

Photo postcard of King George V & Queen Mary at the Delhi Durbar in 1911. Here the King and Queen are escorted in their royal carriage to the site

There are two old postcards attributing to King-Emperor George V’s arrival in Bombay, now Mumbai in 1911

This is an old 1900s postcard of the United Service Club of Calcutta, now Kolkata. The United Service Club was once located in Chowringhee Road or the Jawaharlal Nehru Road Kolkata

Two rare photo postcards from the 1920s showing the Secretariat Buildings under construction in New Delhi. Both the postcards apparently show brisk construction work underway,