Karachi - A Picture Book

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Karachi in 1800s

Karachi in 1900-09

Karachi in 1910s

Karachi in 1920s

Karachi in 1930s

Karachi in 1940-1947


Karachi in 1950s

Karachi in 1960s

Karachi in 1970s

Karachi in 1980s

Notable Administrators of Karachi



Art and Culture of Pakistan before Zia

Freedom of Religion in Karachi before Zia

Cinemas of Karachi

Old Pakistani Advertisements

Unknown Past of Karachi



Karachi in 1800s







Bliss & Co. (1896)



Chartered Bank of India, Australia & China, Karachi Branch (1853)



iew of Karachi city in 1889



Looking towards St. Patrick's Cathedral

Staff Lines Area. Picture taken in 1890s



The Old Karachi Fort (Charles Masson, 1830)



Saddar area, St. Andrew Church can be seen. Picture taken

in 1890s



Picture taken from bell tower of Trinity Church. Civil lines, Sindh Club and Frere Hall can be seen.

Picture taken in 1890s

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Old Native Town of Karachi (1890s)

Old N ti T f K hi (1890 )



Old Native Town of Karachi (1890s)



Sindh Club (left) & Frere Hall (right) 1890









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Empress Market (1890s)









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Frere Hall (1865) designed in memory of the Commissioner of Sindh from 1851-1859, Sir

Bartle Frere (picture taken in 1890)



group of British, Muslim and Hindu female students at a school in Karachi in 1910



Haji Dossul & Sons (1840), a general merchandising, fancy goods and

ammunition company located on Elphinstone Street

Indian Life Assurance Company (1892)



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Karachi 1893

M/ K t k & C (1891) l t d i t f i & i it



M/s Katrak & Co. (1891), a general store and importer of wine & spirits



Early Karachi Map

(1889)

Maggar Tallao (Alligator Tank), a swampy oasis filled with alligators attributed to the



miracles of Lal Shahbabaz Qalandar

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Manora Barracks

Merewether Memorial Tower (1884)



Merewether Memorial Tower (1884),

built in memory of Sir William L. Merewether,

Commissioner of Sindh (1868-77)

Mahomed Ali Alibhoy & Sons (1843), a



Mahomed Ali Alibhoy & Sons (1843), a

contractors for British military

Napier Barracks, constructed in 1847



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Nusserwanjee & Co. (1879) on Elphinstone Street









Parsi Virbaiji School, Kurrachee (Old spelling of Karachi)



Parsi Virbaiji School, Kurrachee (Old spelling of Karachi)

Sindh Floor Mills & Warehouse



(1896)



T. Cosser & Sons Engineering



Works & Godowns, Wood

Street, Karachi (1866)



Trinity Church,

consecrated in 1855

(picture taken in 1890)

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ictoria Museum (1887)




The Bristol Hotel (1907) built by Dossabhoy Byramji Minwalla



Lloyd's Bank (1900s)



Bunder Road, Max Denso Hall (built in 1886) can be seen in the background



Bunder Road





Cowasjee & Sons (1887) Mules Mansions building (early 1900's)Located at Willingdon Place Kiamari

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Coal merchants and contractors for bunkering

The Hayden Company (1905)



The only piano manufacturer in British India,

located at Elphinstone Street









The yards at the harbour entrance and at the South of the harbour in the 1900s









Katrak Parsi Swimming Bath - 1906



Louis Dreyfus & Co. (1907): Grain Merchants



Northwestern Hotel, established 1908,

offered some of the finest dining in Karachi









Karachi in 1910s

The Alliance Agency Building (1919), Cincinnatus town



Bai Virbaiji Katrak Maternity Wing (Lady Dufferin Hospital) - Inaugurated 1916



iews of Saddar: Bohree Bazaar in 1917



view of the Elphinstone Street in 1917



Landing of French aviator Etienne Poulet on course from France to Australia on a Caudron G-4 (1919)



Frere & Co. (1916): General merchandising







The Karachi Port Trust Building (1915)



iews of Saddar: Bohree Bazaar in 1917



The Star Cinema - built in 1918



The Star Cinema - built in 1918





Karachi in 1920s



view of the Civil and Staff lines 1928, the Sindh Club can be seen in the foreground





Cumper's Cafe Grand, operated by Herbert "Bertie" Cumper, one of the best bakers and confectionersin town. Located in Edward House.











The Lloyd Bank, 1928



Merewether Tower, 1928









Karachi in 1930s

A view of Elphinstone Street in 1930
















Independence Day celebrations in 1947










































































Karachi in 1950s





































Karachi in 1960s















Saddar area in 1965







































Karachi in 1970s













































Karachi in 1980s









The American contingent parade past spectators

at the 1980 ‘Karachi Olympics’















Notable Administrators in

Karachi





Jamshed Nusserwanji Mehta,the first elected Mayor of

Karachi



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Art and Culture of Pakistan

before Zia



The Red Car, the first Pakistani car by Hamid Omar in 1967



Playboy Night Club, Karachi, 1974







Freedom of Religion in Karachi

before Zia









Jewish Synagogue in Karachi

































































Unknown Past of Karachi



Streets of Karachi



















Oldest US Consulate of Karachi









The End



HHiisst t oor r y y oo f f KKaar r aac c hhii

11880000ss ttoo 11998800ss

A glimpse into the glorious historyof Karachi from Khan of Kalat



of Karachi, from Khan of Kalat

to British Raj to 1947

Independence to 1980s Martial

Law, a pictorial review of the

politics, culture and environment

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