'Fond thoughts' – a British sentimental postcard.
A British sentimental postcard.
This black-and-white postcard comprises three elements: two photographic and one textual. The main scene shows a mother and her daughter looking at a photograph; the inserted photograph diagonally above them is a portrait of the child’s soldier–father gazing dreamily into the distance. The verse above the woman and girl’s heads reads: ‘Fond thoughts. / In the stress and war of battle, / Wherever you may roam, / Remember you are in the thoughts, / Of those you’ve left at home.’ The printed information on the postcard’s back states: ‘129. Entirely British Manufacture.’
A British sentimental postcard entitled 'Fond thoughts'.
Postcard
CONTRIBUTOR
The Army Children Archive
DATE
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LANGUAGE
eng
ITEMS
1
INSTITUTION
Europeana 1914-1918
PROGRESS
METADATA
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