History of Karachi

1800s to 1980s

History of Karachi
1800s to 1980s

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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 1947-1949
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)

View 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

Old Native Town of Karachi (1890s)

Old Native Town of Karachi (1890s)

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

Old Native Town of Karachi (1890s)

Empress Market (1890s)

Empress Market (1890s)

Empress Market (1890s)

Frere Hall (1865) designed in memory of the Commissioner of Sindh from 1851-1859, Sir
Bartle Frere (picture taken in 1890)

A 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)

Karachi 1893

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

Manora Barracks

Merewether Memorial Tower (1884),

built in memory of Sir William L. Merewether,
Commissioner of Sindh (1868-77)

Mahomed Ali Alibhoy & Sons (1843), a

contractors for British military

Napier Barracks, constructed in 1847

Nusserwanjee & Co. (1879) on Elphinstone Street

Old Karachi Map 1852

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)

Victoria Museum (1887)

Karachi in 1900-1909

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
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

Views of Saddar: Bohree Bazaar in 1917

A 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)

Views of Saddar: Bohree Bazaar in 1917

The Star Cinema - built in 1918

The Star Cinema - built in 1918

Karachi in 1920s

A 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 confectioners
in town. Located in Edward House.

The Lloyd Bank, 1928

Merewether Tower, 1928

Karachi in 1930s

A view of Elphinstone Street in 1930

A view of the Passenger terminal of the Karachi Port at Kiamari in 1930

Karachi in 1940-1947

Independence Day celebrations in 1947

Karachi Airport in 1943 during World War II

Karachi in 1947-1949

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

Altaf Hussain, speaking at a large party

rally in Karachi in 1987

Benazir Bhutto during her wedding ceremony (held in Lyari) in 1986.

Taj Mahal Hotel 1982

Notable Administrators in
Karachi

Mir Yar Muhammad Khan and Mir Muhammad Khan (1842)

Sir Charles Napier, Governor of Bombay Presidency & British Army's

Commander in Chief of India, the conqueror of Sindh

Jamshed Nusserwanji Mehta,

the first elected Mayor of
Karachi

Farooq Sattar, Mayor of Karachi (1988-1992)

Syed Mustafa Kamal, the Mayor (Nazim) of

Karachi (2005-2010)

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

Parsi's Burning ghat

Jewish Synagogue in Karachi

Cinemas of Karachi

Old Pakistani Advertisements

Unknown Past of Karachi

Streets of Karachi

Oldest US Consulate of Karachi

Girls swimming in Karachi's

local swimming pool

The End

History of Karachi
1800s to 1980s

A glimpse into the glorious history

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
of Karachi.
First Edition 2013
Second Edition 2015