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First world War Picture Postcard

National Art Company
1907
Overview

Picture 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”

Historical information

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.

Details

Details

Registration number
cwa-org-12-2022.3.1
Item type
Postcards
Themes
War and Conflict > World War 1
Material
Card
Width
90 mm
Height or length
144 mm
Inscriptions and markings

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”

Keywords
First World War
Postcard
Year
1907
Primary significance criteria
Artistic or aesthetic significance
Historic significance
Social or spiritual significance
Comparative significance criteria
Well provenanced
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Geotag
-35.030449, 117.912878

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Picture Postcard
Picture postcard of Little Bo-peep
Reverse of picture postcard
Reverse of picture postcard displaying Little Bo-Peep

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