Design Pics/Historical RM Images

Vintage,antique, Victorian Stereoview card from circa 1900 India through the stereoscope.1903 historic social history images South front of Viceregal Lodge,Palace of Viceroy at Sinja the summer capital of India. A handsome building is this, and a great deal more, (t is the home of George Nathaniel Curzon, Lord Kedleston, the ruler of India. Seeing the place with our own eyes, we understand the picturesque phrases of a recent writer on the Indian Viceroy: On the top of a Himalayan hill, looking one way across the plain of the brimming Sutlej and the other orer shouldering ridges to the snows, sits George Nathaniel, Lord Curzon of Kedleston. governing the great India which spreads at his feet, under his eyes, two thousand flat mites to the south. Here he sits, one of the Empire's 'coming men,' known and proved at home, anxious to be known and proved abroad, to rise upon the things he will do, to leave his mark upon the time. Lord Curzon's is a moving, virile figure upon the open page of our history; it commands our interest and invites our criticism.