Postcard

Collection object


2001.0558
H. 8.9 W. 14.0
Postcard, b/w, matt. Jail St, Ennis, Gaelic Postcards, Dublin, 368. Posted 1905. View up street to O'Connell Monument centre distance. Exteme l., shop of P Coghlan, Chemist, with boy in doorway looking to camera, lamp on extending bar over doorway inscribed Coghlan / Chemist, A-shaped wooden ladder on footpath outside third shop, two girls in white outer garments on footpath beside ladder, thatched two storey shops beyond them, people, large hand cart, on street in distance. On r., arched bow way in middle distance, shop with ornate iron railed balcony at first floor level on near side, man in white protective coat wearing white hat on folding ladder on footpath outside. Margin below with title in red across: Inis, Contae an Chlair. Sraid an Charchair; uaithne cuimhne Ui Chonaill, and in bottom l. corner, (368). Handwritten below title: Hearty New Years greeting from yr Irish cousins. R/ printed red, headed Carta Posta, line central divide headed l., Postacht laistig, is feidir an / thuairisg de chur annso, and r., An seoladh amhain. Issuer up l. edge: Cuideachta na gCartai Posta Gaedhealach, Atha Cliath. Two halfpenny green Edward VII stamps, each postmarked, circular, Ennis / 2.15 PM / DE 17 / 04. Postmarked on heading, circular, Arrowtown / N.Z. around, in centre, 2 / 1 FE / 05. Postmarked in bottom l. corner, circular, Invercargill / 7.30 PM / 30 JA 05 / N.Z. Addressed across card to Mr Michael Redding, Arrowtown, Otago, New Zealand, and above heading, S.A.G.


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