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Princess Royal Fortress Military Museum > Records

First world War Picture Postcard

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National Art Company

1907

Subcollections

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

Themes

War and Conflict > World War 1

Material

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

Year

Primary significance criteria

Artistic or aesthetic significance

Historic significance

Social or spiritual significance

Comparative significance criteria

Well provenanced

Google Maps search term / URL

https://maps.app.goo.gl/gWHZtRH1mm24SAjK8

Geotag

-35.030449, 117.912878

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Reverse of picture postcard displaying Little Bo-Peep

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