23/04/2025
Letter to the Cultural Affairs Officer of Māhmūnwāl
Dear Mayor or Cultural Affairs Officer of Māhmūnwāl
We are contacting you to offer completely free of charge a new website for old photos of Māhmūnwāl.
It is likely that your locality already has one or more traditional or social media pages where old images of Māhmūnwāl are already shown, but Oldpik offers innovations and advantages that we think may be of interest to you:
- It is an open bank of images of Māhmūnwāl, both residents and the City Council itself can send photographs.
- The images appear with their description and date and can be sorted chronologically, by theme, or by upload date.
- Following the photos of Māhmūnwāl, on the same page, those of the nearest localities will appear Māhmūnwāl, Sodhīwāla, Amritsar, Kalupur and Kohāla
- The images of Māhmūnwāl will appear contextualized in higher geographic categories such as your province page, your autonomous community, your country and even continent or the entire world.
We are actually inviting Māhmūnwāl to be part of the first bank of old images from around the world that has been created on the Internet. Oldpik does not aim to show famous old photographs but rather to transfer to the web the millions of photographs that citizens have in paper format in cookie or shoe boxes and that these become part of the history of the last two centuries. You cannot imagine the hundreds or thousands of photographs of your locality that are in the hands of individuals and that, together, can create a truly impressive historical heritage for Māhmūnwāl. And at no cost.
From your institution in Māhmūnwāl you have two ways to be part of this wonderful project:
- Helping residents digitize images from your own organization and uploading them to Oldpik with your own user account.
- Encouraging the residents of Māhmūnwāl through social networks to digitize their photos and share them on the Māhmūnwāl page of Oldpik.com
OLDPIK / MāHMūNWāL
https://oldpik.com/place/asia-india-punjab-jalandhar-shahkot-mahmunwal
Thanking you in advance for your interest in this project and hoping to count on your collaboration, we cordially bid you farewell.
José Miguel López
Roberto Santana