Postcard
Collection object
1999.0264
H. 9.0 W. 13.9
Postcard, b/w , landscape format. Title at bottom left "Main Street, Doon, Co. Limerick". View shows the main street, looking slightly uphill and curving away to right; in middle distance three women looking out of two doorways at right, at group of 7? boys and two men who are watching the photographer and spreading from right wall to centre of road; at left middle distance is a group of small children with woman bending over, a woman in the doorway and a blurred figure; there is no wheeled traffic in the street. Reverse printed in grey; "Post Card"at centre top with T shaped double divider below; up left edge "Hely's Limited Dublin"; left of centre "This space may be used for communications Inland/ and to all Foreign Countries except Japan/ Spain and Unbited States"; right of centre "The Address only to be/ Written here" Red one penny definitive issue postage revenue stamp of Edward VII. Circular black cancellation "Doon/ 2.30 PM/ OC 9/ 07/ Co. Limerick". Addressed to Mrs P.J. Canny, 163 Orchard St., Bridgeport, Connecticut, America, by her sister Johanna Ryan; message that she will write soon. Dealer's pencil mark at top right centre, "£40".