A Punjabi post-runner with a satchel of letters hanging from a spear over his shoulder.. Artist(s): Kapur Singh (fl.1866)
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A Punjabi post-runner with a satchel of letters hanging from a spear over his shoulder. By Kapur Singh, an Amritsar artist. 15 October 1866. Inscribed by Augustus Honner on album page: ‘Kupoor Sing of Umritsar 15/10/66’; on mount: ‘A dak Runner or Postman - where there is no ‘mail cart’. The...
Genre: Architectural Photography Stereoscopic view looking along the massive porticoed of the post office, with Nelson's Column to the right. With text description, pp. 61-64. Published in part no. 4, October 1858.
Genre: Architectural Photography View looking across the Dalhousie Tank in Dalhousie Square (now B.B.D. Bagh) towards the Post Office. With descriptive letterpress caption label pasted to reverse.
Dalhousie Square [and Post Office], Calcutta. Photographer: Unknown
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Genre: Urban Topographical Photography Sepia postcard, divided back, published by Raphael Tuck and Sons ('specially published for Commercial Union, 15K Lindsay Street, Calcutta').
General Post Office, Calcutta. Photographer: Unknown
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Genre: Architectural Photography Sepia postcard, divided back, published by Raphael Tuck and Sons ('specially published for Commercial Union, 15K Lindsay Street, Calcutta').