Postcard
Collection object
1998.1294
H. 10.8 W. 15.2
Postcard, colour glossy, landscape format, white margin across bottom. Title in Irish and English in margin at left "St. John's Hospital and St. John's Cathedral, Limerick Ireland", with "HT64356/ Photos Aero-Views., Dublin" at right. Aerial view of the Cathedral and hospital, with St. Joh's Church in the lower right corner. 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 "At St. John's Hospital are some fragments of the old city walls/ of limerick, including a sllyport and part of "Black Battery",/ blown up on the occasion of the abortive assault made on the/ city by William of Orange in 1690. St. John's cathedral with/ imposing tower and spire rising to 280 feet is a beautiful/ Gothic revival structure built 1856-61. A fine marble Madonna/ by Benzoni adorns the sanctuary, and in the treasury may be/ seen the exquisiteoy worked mitre and superb silver-gilt/ crozier of Conor O'Dea, Bishop of Limerick 140026. The smaller St john's Parish Church is on the square nearby ; 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)