Postcard : Little Bo Peep. [Circa 1905-1913]
Clothing and dress
Leeds (England)
Nursery rhymes
Satire
Sheep
Valentines
Wit and humor
Part of a series of postcards labeled "Valentine's Series." This satirical card contains a color illustration of a little girl, "Little Bo Peep," wearing a large hat. She is holding a shepherd's crook in one hand and a newspaper in the other. the newspaper is entitled "Votes for Sheep" and has a picture of a lamb, captioned "A Martyr."
On the verso, the card is address to Miss L. Stubbs "Garhroyd?" the Drive Roundhay Leeds, and postmarked April 17 [year missing]. The handwritten message reads: "Monday / My dear Edna, / Thank you so very much for your photograph. I think it is splendid of you. I am having a lovely time, but it's nice to see the sea again. With love, Dorothy"
[Graeff?]
[Circa 1905-1913]
Postcard : An appeal to John Bull. [Circa 1908-1909]
Arrest
England--London
John Bull (Symbolic character)--1900-1910
Tennyson, Alfred Tennyson, Baron, 1809-1892
Postcard is part of the Valentine's Series. The card depicts a suffragist, shackled and in a prison cell, reaching out to John Bull, a personification of England. The poem along the bottom is an excerpt from "The Princess," by Alfred Lord Tennyson.
On the verso, the card is addressed to Mrs. Lavor 4 Cambridge Rd Walton on Thames Surrey, and postmarked April 27, 1909. The handwritten message reads: "Dear Alice / Sorry could not come yesterday owing to the weather & I cannot come tomorrow as I have a friend coming to stay for a few days love from L. Elliot"
[Circa 1908-1909]