'Who Is The Taller?'

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Type: Postcards
Date: 1907
Materials: Card, Ink
Collection: Josef Lebovic Gallery collection no. 1
Accession number: 1986.0117.0045

Description

Postcard with colourised photograph captioned 'WHO IS THE TALLER?'. A woman is standing face to face with a kangaroo and supporting its outstretched front legs. The kangaroo, which is raised on its back legs is taller than the woman. There is a message on the reverse.

The address reads 'Miss Ivy Fenton/ C/- Mr Fenton / Chemist / Karangahape Road / Auckland / New Zealand. The message reads ; Melbourne 22/11/07 [1907 / My dear Ivy / I hope that this will find you well also your mother and father tell your mother that Mrs Anderson is still away up in the Blue Mountains and I have sent on her letters to her and thank your mother for them as we always like to get her letters hoping she is keeping well and I would like very much to be in New Zealand again this year love to you and kindest regards to [illegible]

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