Postcard
Collection object
1987.0336
L. 13.9 x W. 8.8
Postcard, b/w, gloss. Obv: View of street, rising, in village. Many people on street, especially note group of schoolboys on left. Cart on right, in distance. Uniformed figure with flat topped hat and cape on right, talking to woman at door of house. Note two poles on right, sewer gas vents? Possibly some retouching of houses and figures of people in far distance. Title, red, top. Rev: Printed green. Top, centre, Post Card, below, short line, with, below, from centre, a short line (with a decorative (floral?) end), vertical, descending, dividing card. Heading, left, This Space for Correspondence only., right, Address only here. Top right, rectangular stamp frame, just visible at edges of green 1/2d British stamp (Edward VII?), postmark over, circular, Hospital / D?E 1 / (illegible fragment) / Kno... ...rick (=Knocklong?). Left, parallel to and beside left edge of card, Hely's Limited, Dublin. Left, written at right angles to card, Dear Mollie, / I received your / letter & enclosed. Thanks / very much. Will write / soon D.V. / Hoping you are quite well, / Your affec. Mother. Right, Miss M. Purcell / 67 Northumberland Rd. / Dublin. Bottom, right, fragment of circular postmark, ....ick.