Settler's Home, Adelaide Exhibition, 1910

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Type: Postcards
Place: Adelaide, South Australia, Australia
Materials: Ink, Paper
Collection: Josef Lebovic Gallery collection no. 1
Accession number: 1986.0117.0886

Description

Postcard with a black and white drawing labelled "SETTLER'S HOME / ADELAIDE EXHIBITION, 1910." The card has a message on the back and is dated 27 April 1910.

Handwritten message on reverse is addressed to 'Master Harold Inch / C/o Mrs D Birdd / "Townsend" / Strathon / N. Cornwall / England' and reads 'My dear Harold / This is a picture / of a settlers home that / is shown in the exhibition / I have never seen / one in our country like / it though there may / have been some in the / early days. We have / stone walls now and iron / roofs and wire fence. / Uncle Albert does not / forget you. Yours sincerely / Ams[?] Waugh'

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