I love scouring the web for old photos. I found some real treasures when I stumbled across these old photos from India! Please let me know which are your favorites and if you would like to see more of them, there are a bunch more waiting to be posted 🙂
All photos are from and used with permission of: http://www.oldindianphotos.in/
Women Grinding Paint – Calcutta c1845
Three Hindu Ladies – c1880’s
The-Maharaja-of-Mysore-Krishnaraja-Wadiyar-IV—2nd-February-1895
The Birdseller, Albumen Print – 19th Century
Street and Lower Bazaar at Simla 1890’s
SINHALESE DEVIL DANCERS – Ceylon (Sri Lanka) c1890’s
Jain Temples in Palitana, Gujarat – c1880’s
Madras (Chennai) – c1865
Maha Lawka Maya Zain Pagoda (Kuthodaw Pagoda) – Mandalay, Burma (Myanmar) c1880’s
Maharao Shri Khengarji III of Cutch – c1900
Portrait-of-Two-Women-by-Raja-Deen-Dayal-and-Sons—Date-Unknown
Sein Kyaw, Burmese Dancing Girl – Burma c1900’s
Group Photograph of House Servants – Late 19th Century
Group of men and Children at a village Near Keylong, Lahaul and Spiti District, Himachal Pradesh – c1903
Gateway of the Tomb of I’timād-ud-Daulah – Agra, c1860’s
Double Bullock Carts – Ceylon (Sri Lanka) c1890’s
Camel with Attendant – Jaipur, Rajasthan, c1900’s
Children in North Bihar, India – May 1951
A Reclining Woman Wearing Jewellery, with a Hookah on the Left – Lucknow 1872
109 year old Apatani woman of slave class with nose plugs, Subansiri Frontier District, India, ca. 1954
A Reclining Woman Wearing Jewellery, with a Hookah on the Left – Lucknow 1872
Aghoree,-Hindoo-Mendicant—Benares-(Varanasi)-c1860’s
Andaman Tribals Fishing – Circa 1870
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