First world War Picture Postcard
1907Picture postcard of young girl in a pink dress holding a crook. “Little Bo-Peep” nursery rhyme character. Nursery rhyme printed below picture. On reverse handwritten message from ‘Daddy”
As post was the only significant means of communication connecting the home front with the military front postcards became very popular as they were simple and effective.
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On front – ‘Little Bo-Peep has lost her sheep / and can’t tell where to find them / Leave them alone and they’ll come home / And bring their tails behind them’. Also small, printed caricature of Little Bo-Peep in bottom left-hand corner. On reverse in print logo for National Art Company also “This Space for Writing Messages” / “POSTCARD / “This side for the address”. Handwritten in ink “Melbourne 27/2/1916 / To my Darling Rosie with love from her Daddy”
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