Kashmir Through Old Photographs

A collection of charming vintage postcards and photographs showcasing mid-20th century Kashmir's beauty, culture, and daily life. The pictures include a young woman in red embroidered pheran with dejihoor earrings; two women with ornate attire and hookah; houseboats on Dal Lake; the floating vegetable market with loaded shikaras; devotees at Hazratbal Shrine; suspension bridge in Pahalgam with horseback tourists; bustling Lal Chowk streets; Shalimar Bagh terraced gardens; pony treks to Thajwas Glacier in Sonamarg; and a group of women and children with a Western visitor in a rural setting. Simple views of old Kashmir. This charming vintage postcard from mid-20th century Kashmir features a young Kashmiri woman radiating warmth with a gentle smile, elegantly dressed in a deep red pheran adorned with intricate golden tilla embroidery, a crisp white headscarf, traditional heavy ear ornaments (dejihoor), and multiple gold bangles on her wrists, posed against a painted backdrop of misty ...

A collection of old photographs showing everyday scenes in Jammu and Kashmir from the 1860s to the 1960s. The pictures include a young woman carrying fodder and holding a lamb in a rural setting around 1960; the Hazratbal Shrine in its 19th-century wooden form between 1860 and 1870; a traditional mud-and-stone village house with thatched roof and livestock courtyard in 1951; a Swedish caravan on a mountain road in the Kashmir Valley in 1967; a crowded gathering at Hazratbal Ghat with boats and devotees in 1910; a hand-painted view of the Bund and General Post Office with houseboats in 1911; the pavilion at Chashma Shahi Mughal Garden in the 1960s; a vintage car on a poplar-lined road in the late 1920s–early 1930s; houseboats along the Jhelum near Budshah Kadal in the 1980s; and traditional riverside wooden houses with balconies and moored shikara. Simple views of old Kashmir. This charming black-and-white postcard photograph from around 1960 by the renowned Mahatta & Co studio i...