A real photographic postcard || A family of three visited ‘Vale, 72 Barkerend Rd., Bradford’ (as the small print on the back of this real photographic postcard tells us) to be photographed Bradford was then in the County of York, West Riding, and is now in West Yorkshire. The baby at the centre has a brooch pinned to her chest, and her mother appears to be wearing a pendant framing a photograph. The baby’s soldier–father wears a dark lanyard, but there is little else distinctive about his uniform. || || Photograph || A photograph of a British soldier and his family.

A few clues give us a little extra insight into this photograph. The single stripe on the soldier–father’s sleeves tells us that he is a corporal. And an embossed stamp across the mother’s feet on this photograph informs us that it was taken in the studio of ‘N GRUT / GUERNSEY’. The ‘N’ stands for ‘Norman’, who was the son of noted photographer Thomas Alfred Grut; by the time of the First World War, the Grut studio was located in St Peter Port, Guernsey. || A real photographic postcard

A photographic postcard. || The soldier in this photograph has placed a supportive hand on his child’s right-hand shoulder. The cap on the chair next to him appears to bear the badge of the Gloucester Regiment. The child’s bespectacled mother wears a cross around her neck, another visible piece of jewellery being her wedding ring. Printed on the reverse of the photographic postcard is the name and address of the photographer whose studio the family of three visited in order to pose for this snapshot in time: ‘W. Franklin, Photographer, 55 Twinnell Rd., Bristol’.