Post-Cards
Category
Ephemera
Date
Unknown
Materials
Cardboard and paper
Measurements
140 mm (height); 197 mm (width)
Place of origin
Britain
Collection
Sudbury Hall Museum of Childhood, Derbyshire
NT 671371
Summary
A postcard album with a red cloth binding and green paper leaves. On the front cover is an impressed border and the words 'Post Cards' impressed in white letters. Each leaf has eight diagonal slits in it - two near each corner, enabling one to insert the corner of a postcard in each pair of slits. The album contains black and white photographs and colour printed postcards of people, landscapes, buildings etc. Some are greeting cards. Some leaves have no postcards.
Marks and inscriptions
Inside the front cover: '9 3/0// Jessie Mitchell' Inside the back cover: 'BRITISH MANUFACTURE/ 100 CARDS' On a piece of paper inside the postcard album: 'Character/ Cultivate more/ concentration/ [ ] [like] [ ] and/ [ ] too much/ Excellent [ ]/ fond of home/ children, and/ pets./ a girl no moods/ cultivate a better/ memory/ You are a better listener/ than a talker/ Parental love large/ Impulsive,/ Impressionable/ but open to/ [corrections]/ cultivate drawing-/ not music/ and also/ nursing and/ teaching.'