A typical card for Congratulation the Muslim festival of EID. Eid comes at the end of the annual Muslim month of Ramadan. This card was designed & made by a local (Karachi) Artist in 1940.

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The Parsis dominated the business community of Karachi for a long time. Once, the Parsis based in this city owned property, shipping businesses, hotels and beverage businesses. Many of them had links or were related to the Bombay Parsi families which played a similarly important role in the birth of India's largest urban business center.

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Although published around 1905, this view by Fred Bremner is probably from 1889 or the early 1890s. Within a few decades the same street was far more crowded, and today is often unnavigable unless one has a lot of time during working and evening hours.

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Located on Chand Bibi Road,Karachi the hospital is dedicated to Lady Dufferin, wife of the colonial Governor General Lord Dufferin. It was begun in 1894, largely due to the efforts of Parsi millionaire and philanthropist Eduljee Dinshaw. The hospital lies in the vicinity of the Dow Medical College and Civil Hospital. Like other of Dinshaw's projects, the hospital is known for treating the poor and the needy.

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Elphinstone Street was named after Monstuart Elphinstone (1779-1859), a Scot who played an important role in western India during the first part of the 19th century. He was the first British ambassador to Afghanistan, and helped defeat the Peshwas in Maharashtra, both before 1820. He served as Governor of Bombay Presidency - of which Karachi was a part until the 1930s. Elphinstone College in Mumbai was also named after him.

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This indoor market was built in the 1880s. Empress Market crowns the central shopping district in Karachi. Built in honor of Queen Victoria, it opened in 1889. The huge clock on four sides of the tower still works. One can buy almost anything within the covered stalls or in the lanes surrounding the market. Empress Market crowns the central shopping district in Karachi. Built in honor of Queen Victoria, it opened in 1889. The huge clock on four sides of the tower still works. One can buy almost anything within the covered stalls or in the lanes surrounding the market.

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It was formerly called Bunder (or Bandar) Road as "bunder" refers to "port". Like many such roads, it remains a primary commercial thoroughfare for Karachi and is lined with numerous historic buildings including the Customs House, the former Merewether Tower and various banks, trading houses and major retail outlets. It was also one of the first streets in Karachi to be graced with a tramway.

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Frere Hall was built in the memory of Sir Henry Bartle Edward Frere, an early Commissioner of Sindh province and a far-sighted administrator who did much to improve the economic life of his subjects. The Hall was completed in the 1860s. It uses local Karachi sandstone and remains a curious blend of architectural styles, somewhere between Venetian Gothic and the Indo-Sarcenic style that later flourished in Bombay (now Mumbai). During the British Raj Frere Hall served as Karachi's Town Hall. The gardens around it were popular meeting spots until recent security concerns have made them off-limits to people most of the time.

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SINDH ARTS COLLEGE KARACHI. One of the premiere educational institutions of the city of Karachi. Established in the city of Karachi in 1887, the college currently operates under the name D J Sindh Government Science College, named after its founder, prominent Sindhi philanthropist, Mr. Diwan Dayaram Jethmal. Law and Engineering were also offered at one time before they were dropped and separate colleges for these disciplines were built.

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The Parsi Gymkhana was established in 1893 by two Parsi gentlemen eager to encourage sports in their community. Cricket, billiards and other popular games were encouraged in a center was originally built for men. In 1899, women were given the permission to enter the Karachi Parsi Institute and dine there. Parties and dinners were arranged to celebrate special occasions in the lives of the members' children and for wedding and initiation ceremonies.

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Johnny Stores refers to a stall on Elphinstone Street (now Zeb-un-Nissa street) run by a man named Jankidas in the 1930s and 1940s. Commonly known as Janki, British soldiers changed this to "Johnny." Johnny Stores used to sell toffees, sweets, chewing gum, pencils, pens, battery cells, and other odds and ends. It also sold nicely printed black-and-white postcards of Karachi that may have been photographed by someone else. [Many thanks to Ardeshir Cowasjee for background infomation.]

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The major hotels of Karachi have apparently always been within a few blocks of each other in the center of the city. Today the Sheraton is across of the Pearl Continental and both are just around the corner from what was the Metropole, another major hotel that serviced many foreign visitors to the city in the first decades after Independence.

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Established in May 1871, Sind Club is the premiere private club in Karachi. The Sind Club was founded to serve the Europeans of the city; today it is still the gathering place for Karachi's business and social elite. Inside the halls of an Indo-Italianate temple of the Raj, a modern and diverse Karachite business community run the commercial affairs of one of the larger countries on earth.

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The Sind Club in the center of Karachi was built by the British in the 1860s, and the local inhabitants (of what is now Pakistan) were not allowed to become members until after the Independence of Pakistan in 1947. A swimming pool, Southern Italian-style sandstone buildings and a fine restaurant are all located on the vast grounds. Women may still not become members in their own right.

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