A vast collection of over a thousand postcards of India from the golden age of the medium, 1895-1915. Most are in color and have been professionally restored. Major Indian artists like M.V. Dhurandhar and Ravi Varma were early postcard artists, as were premiere European publishers like Raphael Tuck & Sons.Read more

A compelling set of images of Hyderabad before and just after Independence. Many of the nicest color images are from LIFE Magazine. A number of Lala Deen Dayal albumens too. Well worth waiting for the page to load.

A very nicely done site in blog form with hundreds of old images of Ceylon. Many are postcards, but albumen, engravings and other types included. Tags include major studios like Plate, Skeen and Andre. Images are also organized by theme, from cities to religious life and landscapes.Read more

The "House of Pictures" is an image repository together with the scholarship to help understand and curate them. Supported by three major universities and important collectors of these art forms, it features regular new essays by experts in India, Europe and the US.Read more

A call for papers to an international two day conference on early photographers and their studio practices in Asia, and cross-cultural exchanges in the Asia-Pacific region.

Presented by the Research School of Humanities, Australian National University at the National Gallery of Australia in August 2010.Read more

A unique website based on a set of family-owned photographs, postcards and other images rescued from the recent years of turmoil in Afghanistan. Over 500 pieces are currently online. The exhibition is edited by Khalid Ziai, from whose extended family many images come from.Read more

An intriguing essay and photo-gallery by Kajri Jain of the University of Toronto looks at the way images imply different kinds of viewership, primarily in a romantic context.Read more

This exhibition traces the lives of primarily Punjabi immigrants to California from the turn of the century through the 1960s. Recent research into these migrants by scholars and students at the University of California at Berkeley has led to the unearthing of a remarkable human and political story.Read more

Modern India is an exhibition which examines questions of history, culture, art and social reality in India from the end of the eighteenth century to the present day. " This exhibition in Valencia, Spain ran from Dec 2008 through Feb. 2009 and includes a substantial catalog with numerous images available online.Read more

Ceylon was home to many extraordinary 19th century photographers, from Fiebig to Scowen and Skeen. The site, which accompanies a book, has numerous extraordinary images of an island kingdom rich in landscapes, people and abstract botanics.Read more