Time Traveller Archives - Page 6 of 7

Ho Chi Minh City, 1909

Intriguing and beautiful architecture of the Municipal Theatre, also known as the Saigon Opera House

Pier’s progress

Go back to Mumbai’s Wellington Pier as it was in 1880

Machu Picchu, 1912

Tangled history of a special place

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Udaipur, undated

India’s erstwhile princely states’ obsession with the Rolls Royce

Switzerland, 1954

Tenzing liked Switzerland, and thought the Alps resembled his homeland of Khumbu

Kumaon, 1890s

A quiet German undertook a series of travels which appeared in his 1900 travelogue Indische Gletscherfahrten

Shahjahanabad, 1857

This engraving of Mughal India’s capital was already a memory when it was published

American West, 1870s

Irish American photographer Timothy O’Sullivan captured the West’s grandeur on its own terms

The Beatles, New Delhi, 1966

Their one-day layover in New Delhi in 1966 included a visit to Rikhi Ram’s old musical instruments shop

Catalan Atlas, 1375

It’s a picture that speaks a thousand words

Connaught Place, C. 1930

Incomplete Connaught Place in 1930’s. New Delhi was only a little over two decades old then

American Dream, C. 1930s

Images that transport us back into the past

Kausani, 1962

Two of America’s greatest poets journeyed to India much before ‘spiritual’ trips became a fad

Smoking ruins, 1900

Haunting postcards of Pompei reveal more about its tragedy than any modern day photograph can