Embroidered First World War postcard
type: Embroidered First World War postcard
type: ProvidedCHO
created: 1917/1918
description: The design consists of a large USA flag with what appear to be olive branches in the background. The card frame has an embossed pattern of jagged lines set at a slight angle. The emrboidered tekst reads: 'Long may she wave.'
date: 1917/1918
identifier: TRC 2015.0424
description: On the back of the card is hand written in coloured pencil (with various spelling mistakes and sometimes quite illegible): “My Dear Mother just a P.C. to let you know that I had your litter hall right and the Woodbine [cigarettes] dear I ham glad to hear the you are hall quite well as it lives ? me and Willie this time the same will dear Mother I had a litter from Cowsion M. and she his quite will till Feddie sister if she have not had a litter from im that he his getin bitter fast and will soon be with me for she must not fart [fret] about him for I ham looking after him and will see that he his hall right so hall keep …. me a good hart it nd then hall will be save [?] then … will dear Mothers give my love to you hall in the home from hall Joe to dear Mother and holl XXXXXXX.'
coverage: Urban
type: IMAGE
medium: Paper silk

TRC-2015.0424
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  material: Paper silk
  technique: Paper mount machine embroidered gauze
data provider: Textile Research Centre
rights: http://rightsstatements.org/vocab/InC/1.0/
aggregated CHO: Embroidered First World War postcard
provider: Rijksdienst voor het Cultureel Erfgoed
type: Aggregation
is shown at: https://www.trc-leiden.nl/collection/

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