Postcard
Collection object
1993.0371
H. 10.8 W. 15.3
Postcard, colour glossy, landscape format, white margin across bottom. Title in margin at left, "lar na cathrach agus sraid ui chonaill, Luimneach, Eire./ Limerick City Centre featuring O'Connell St., Ireland." with "HT64351/ Photo: Aero-Views Ltd., Dublin" at right. Aerial view of part of centre, Patrick St- O'Connell St running diagonally from bottom left to top right, with William St and Sarsfield St, running diagonally to other corners; taken from north west, Augustinian church at top right of picture, Penneys at bottom left. Reverse printed in black; at centre top a trade mark of a strip of film wrapped around a single engine monoplane, with "Aero Views Ltd., Dublin" on film; up centre as division "A reproduction of a real colour photograph by Aero-Views Ltd., Dublin"; to left at top "Situated at the estuary of the great Shannon River, Limerick/ City is the fourth largest in Ireland and capital of its county./ With a prosperous manufacturing industry, it is an important/ sea port as well as a market and communications centre./ Newtown Pery with well planned streets of Georgian brick/ houses is the main residential and commercial district, and the/ great artery O'Connell Street extends for roughly a mile/ north-south. The Augustinian Church here, rebuilt in 1942, is/ noteworthy for its striking facade and fine interior."; to right "Post Card/ Address only" with box for stamp to right in which "Postage/ stamp/ here"; below "M" followed by five lines for address; "Printed in Republic of Ireland" at bottom right. Unposted and unused
Aeroviews Ltd (published by)