A British sentimental postcard. || The front of this photographic postcard shows a boy sitting on his mother’s knee, beneath the photograph of a soldier. Underneath them is printed the following lines: ‘WHERE HAS MY DADDY GONE TO? (1) / ’Twas in a cosy cottage, one cold, raw Christmas Eve, / Sat a mother with her baby boy, nurs’d upon her knee ; / The boy ask’d for his Daddy, and why he ne’er came home, / Please won’t you tell me, Mamma ? he ask’d in a gentle tone.’ Beneath these lines is the following information: ‘BY PERMISSION OF E. MARKS & SON, 125 MARE STREET, HACKNEY, LONDON, N.E’ and ‘BAMFORTH. COPYRIGHT.’ Further printed details on the back of the postcard tell us that this is the first of a series: the ‘“SONGS” Series No. 4981/1’, ‘PRINTED IN ENGLAND’, by ‘BAMFORTH & CO., LTD., PUBLISHERS HOLMFIRTH (ENGLAND) AND NEW YORK’. || || A British sentimental postcard: 'Where has my Daddy gone to?' || Postcard

A mother is shown consoling her small son on the front of this photographic postcard. Behind them are two telling scenes: a soldier falling in battle on the left, and a grave on the right. The verse beneath them, headed ‘WHERE HAS MY DADDY GONE TO? (4)’, reads, ‘The mother kissed her baby, then tried to hide a tear, / She said, your Daddy he has gone far away from here, / Some day Mum will tell you why your Daddy went away ; / The boy he kissed his mother, then asked her once again–’. Underneath these lines is printed the following text: ‘BY PERMISSION OF E. MARKS & SON, 125 MARE STREET, HACKNEY, LONDON, N.E.’ and ‘BAMFORTH. COPYRIGHT’. More text is printed on the reverse of the postcard: ‘BAMFORTH & CO., LTD., PUBLISHERS HOLMFIRTH (ENGLAND) AND NEW YORK’ and ‘“SONGS” Series No. 4981/4’, ‘PRINTED IN ENGLAND’. || A British sentimental postcard, the fourth in a series of four. || || A sentimental British postcard. || Postcard

A British sentimental postcard. || Two scenes make up the visual element of this postcard, printed, as the typeset information on the back tells us, in England by ‘BAMFORTH & CO., LTD., PUBLISHERS HOLMFIRTH (ENGLAND) AND NEW YORK’. An additional detail is ‘SERIES NO. 4860/2’, which, along with the numbered title printed on the front of the card, indicates that it is the second in the ‘When Daddy Comes Home’ series. In the main scene, a girl and her mother are shown apparently conversing. The vignette above them portrays the mother presiding over a table set for tea, with the girl sitting on her soldier–father’s lap. The verse running beneath this pair of scenarios reads: ‘WHEN DADDY COMES HOME (2). / When daddy comes home again all will be right, / He will be smiling, our eyes shining bright ; / I’m thinking how happy and proud we shall be, / When daddy comes home again to you and to me.’ The small print at the bottom reads: ‘BAMFORTH (COPYRIGHT). BY KIND PERMISSION OF MESSRS. ASCHERBERG, HOPWOOD & CREW, LTD’. || || Postcard || 'When Daddy Comes Home 2', a British sentimental postcard