'My Daddy'
A British real photographic postcard
The central figure of this posed scene is a bespectacled mother, who is steadying the small child seated on the table beside her. The child is in turn holding a photograph whose subject is a British soldier. His or her older sister stands behind their mother, gazing at the photograph. ‘My Daddy’ has been inscribed along the bottom. There is nothing on the reverse of this real photographic postcard to identify the family, or the photographic studio in which they are pictured.
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CONTRIBUTOR
The Army Children Archive
DATE
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LANGUAGE
eng
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INSTITUTION
Europeana 1914-1918
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