POSTCARD: EGYPTIAN DESERT SCENE - CARIO
c. 1915From a collection of two postcards.
Image: Orange-brown coloured card with picture of the Cheops Pyramid and Egyptians sitting on the ground in the foreground with a camel and its rider behind them. To the left is a man pointing towards the pyramid and a group of women in the background.
Reverse: Message from B. Brockway in France to Miss Eileen Newman advising that he was now a full-blown artillery officer and of the weather conditions.
Many postcards were sent to Newman family members during WWI.
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Local and WWI history. Postcards sent to members of the Newman family from friends on active service during World War I; one from Egypt and the other from France.
Other items from Subiaco Museum
- WALLET: CROCODILE LEATHER WITH REINFORCED METAL CORNERS, NEWMAN
- POSTCARD: VIEW ON A STEAMER ON LOCH LOMOND, TO EILEEN NEWMAN, 1915
- POSTCARD: NEW YEAR'S WISHES, FLOWER ARRANGEMENT WITH MIRROR
- PHOTOGRAPH (COPY): MISS EDITH NELSON
- PHOTOGRAPH (COPY): ARTHUR JOSEPH NELSON AS A CHILD
- POSTCARD: THE FIRST SUBIACO TAXI WITH MR ERN CONGDON, DRIVER
- PHOTOGRAPH: THE FIRST SUBIACO TAXI WITH MR ERN CONGDON, DRIVER
- POSTCARD: THE YOUNG AUSTRALIA LEAGUE AT THE GUILDHALL (EUROPEAN TOUR 1924-25)
- PHOTOGRAPH: FIRST TAXI IN SUBIACO
- POSTCARD: 'GREETINGS FROM SUBIACO, STATE CHILDREN'S DEPARTMENT, SUBIACO, W. A.'
- POSTCARD: 'GREETINGS FROM SUBIACO, STATE CHILDREN'S DEPARTMENT, SUBIACO, W. A.'
- POSTCARD: 'GREETINGS FROM SUBIACO, NEDLANDS FROM FORESHORE, SUBIACO, W. A.'