Postcard
Collection object
1993.0142
H. 8.8 W. 14.0
Postcard, b/w glossy, landscape format, white margin around view. Title in centre of bottom margin, "Lakeside Hotel. Killaloe". View show hotel at centre in a bend on the Shannon, with hills behind. Reverse printed in black; "Post Card" at centre top with double underlining; "Guaranteed Real Photograph and British Manufacture" up centre; "Egleston Bros., Limerick" up left edge; left of centre "Communication"; right of centre "The Address only to be/ Written Here". Red 1d Eire definitive issue stamp, with outline map of Ireland under an arch. Circular cancellation "Baile Ui Bheolain/ Co. an Clair/ 9 V/ 39" Addressed to Captain John Vernon, Herrison House, Dorchester, Dorset, from ?U. E. Vernon, Derg Hotel Mount Shannon; message "Nellie & I are down here for 2 nights plant hunting on the Burren of Clare, for plants for our rock garden" etc.
Egleston Brothers (photographer)