Postcard
Collection object
2001.0584
H. 10.6 W. 15.0
Postcard, colour, glossy. Shannon Free Airport and Industrial Estate, Co. Clare, Ireland. John Hinde. View from a height of one-storey wooden airport buildings, car park in front with many cars parked, grass with flower beds l., cypress tree extreme r., man, two women and two children walking across car park towards camers. Immediately beyond the buildings are an Aer Lingus four propellor aeroplane, EI-ALG, with steps to the doorway at the back, and beyond, a Pan American plane with steps at the doorway at the front. To l. and r. of this are red and yellow petrol tankers of Shell BP. In the distance are multi-storey apartment blocks of Shannon town and low hills in the distance. Narrow margin below with title in black l., and at r., Colour Photo by John Hinde, F.R.P.S. R/ Printed grey, logo of Hinde centre top, two grey rectangles, one above the other, the top with concave r. edge a circle to its r., inscribed in white John Hinde, the lower with concavity and circle to the l., and inscribed Original. Five solid lines for address. In bottom l. corner a map of Ireland with arrow pointing to Shannon Airport, and ten lines of text re airport to its r. Below l., No. 2/249 Printed and Published by John Hinde Ltd., Dalkey, Co. Dublin, Irish Republic. 6p Croke Patrick purple air mail stamp with angel flying holding a scroll inscribed Vox Hiberniae, postmarked, double circle, Aerphort na Sionnaine, in centre, 9 VII / 62. Addressed to Miss Linda Kellermann, 90 Spring Street, Amherst, Mass, USA, from Papi, dated 9th July 1962, 10 am, just landed in Shannon, pleasant trip, will continue to Dusseldorf in an hour.
John Hinde (published by)