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Making holes in a rubber at school


Using a hair clip on the finger.


Rolling up the straps of school bags


Diverting the water into the sink air holes


Cough Syrup


Dum Dum Airport, Calcutta (Kolkata) 1952


A cobblers tool


A Can opener.

Spools of thread


Bottle Opener


Record Player

Wheat grinder



Hand Made Speaker System


Chips - Bobby Rings


A Hand Fan


Instrument box


Photograph Negatives


DD National Programs


Watching TV in groups


Video Game


Hair Trimmer


Chocolates


Stool to sit on (Peera)


Babies walker


James played during childhood.


Breakfast before school (Chapati and Sugar)


Musical Tapes


Handpump for water


Rode side Movie


Letter Post Box


Cold Drinks (Mirinda, Pepsi, 7Up


Oil Lamps


Frozen water Ice, Peppsi


Railway signal light

Catipult, Battery, Whistle, Stones tossing game, Bulbs, Hericine



ONIDA TV Devil Old Doordarshan Ad - 90's Advertisement


Takht-e Rostam Buddhist Stupa Carved Into The Ground

Bipin Behari Ganguly Street - Calcutta 1978


British Soldier at a sidewalk shoe store - Calcutta 1944


Chowringhee, Kolkata (Calcutta) - April 1970


Two American Soldiers Riding a Rickshaw Cart in Calcutta - 1944


Utensils Shop - Khidderpore, Calcutta 1944


Whiteaway, Laidlaw & Co - Chowringhee, Calcutta 1920’s


Strand Road, Howrah Bridge, Calcutta 1944


Vintage Watkins Products
Metal tea strainer and egg / Ladies Cardinal Wrist Watch 1940 Era / Kitchen Bar Tool / Can Openers / Sunbeam Electric Skillet Model 61B-1 Frying Pan / Dion Rocker Fluter - a type of iron, with a slug heated on the stove, that pressed in pleats or gathers for ruffles.


Corner of Harrison Street (Burra Bazar) and Strand Road, Calcutta in 1945


Esplanade in 1940


Triple decker bus in Berlin, Germany, 1926



Howrah Delhi Toofan Express near Agra in 1975.

Kolkata Gariahat before the flyover 1990s



Early 1996 World Wrestling Federation Superstars during a tour in India


Chowringhee point ,,(Esplanade) Calcutta - 1945


A poor cripple's ox-cart — Kolkata,1908.


Calcutta (Kolkata) 1947


Firstline Beach Madras (1925)

The Raja of Poonch, Raja Jagat Dev Singh Kalan Bahadur at St. James's Palace, London, c. 1923.

Shoe Maker in Lahore 1880s

Near Sealdah Station, Calcutta 1944

Metro Theater, Bombay 1953

Lal Bazar - Calcutta 1980

Horse Coach Waiting for Passenger in a Busy Street - Calcutta 1940's

European man in a sedan chair (Palki) in Bombay, British India - 1870s

Dharamtala (Esplanade) in 1940

Chowringhee Road Crossing, Calcutta 1960

BarraBazar Chitpur, Calcutta, 1942


Map Of Colton's Hindostan or British India 1872.

A Rare Calendar August 1947



1 by 12th Anna , 1932 (INDIA)


1968...Darjeeling More...Siliguri













Chowringhee Camera Stores, Calcutta – 1940s.



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Location: Kharagpur, West Bengal, India

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