Album, Postcards

Maker
Bennett, Harold
Production date
1900-1921

Object detail

Brief Description
Album, Postcards
Album has a coloured Art Nouveau pattern embossed on the front. Postcards are dated from 1900 to 1921. Belonged to Harold Bennett - his name is written on inside front cover. One postcard has his address as Sentry Hill, Taranaki. There are also a few photographs in the album.
Contains:
1. Hand painted Happy Birthday card.
2. Postcard with Harold written on with young women. Dated 13.7.1907. Has a letter written on the back with a one penny stamp.
3. Birthday Greetings. Glitter and doves.
4. Cartoon - Squalls. Letter on the back.
5. Card with a poem The world is like the Ocean wide...
6. Christmas Card - 28 December 1911
7. Christmas Card - photo of Hawk's Crag, Buller Gorge.
8. Cartoon - Amalgamated Society of Spooners. 1913 - to Jimmy from Annie.
9. Cartoon - love message - plenty of money...
10. 21 Card, 29.9.1908
11. Birthday card, January 1912
12. Postcard - Mt Egmont from New Plymouth, FGR 1892
13. Postcard - Meeting of the Waters Killarney.
14. Friendship card - from Midhurst, N.Z. Glitter on words.
15. Religious card - Praise ye the Lord
16. New Year card
17. Christmas and New Year card. Photograph of Auckland. 20.12.1910
18. Birthday card, 12.1.1911
19. Birthday card, no date.
20. Birthday card, no date.
21. Christmas card
22. Card with Jane spelt out with photographs of girls.
23. Three aces - for Good luck
24. New Year card - dated 25 December 1908
25. Guerre 1914-1916 - bombing damage.
26. Recreation Grounds, New Plymouth dated 26.7.1908.
27. Hearty Congratulations
28. Under One Flag - Britannia rules the waves
29. A Happy Christmas to You - to Jane from Martina
30. Christmas card, 1911.
31. Forget Me Not
32. Photograph of an unidentified woman.
33. Birthday card with glitter. Dated 28.9.2010
34. Christmas card, 1914
35. Card with a woman on front.
36. Happy New Year card
37. French Embroidered WWI card - United for Liberty
38. French Embroidered Christmas card Season's Greetings
39. French Embroidered card Souvenir de Glorieuse
40. Birthday card
41. Birthday card
42. Abbeville - W.W.I
43. Guerre 1914-1916
44. Guerre 1914-1918
45. Guerre 1914-1915
46. Guerre 1914-1916
47. Guerre 1914-1916
48. Guerre 1914-1916
49. Guerre 1914-1916
50. Guerre 1914-1916
51. Guerre 1914-1916
52. Guerre 1914-1916
53. Guerre 1914-1916
54. Guerre 1914-1916
55. Airaines (Somme)
56. Airaines (Somme)
57. Guerre 1914-1916
58. Remember Miss Edith Cavell murdered October 12th 1915
59. Abbeville WWI
60. Abbeville WWI
61. Photograph of a baby.
62. Picquigny - WWI
63. The Methodist Church of New Zealand - Annual ticket of Church membership - John O Boniface (a) and Lydia Boniface (b).
64. Abbeville - WWI
65. Airaines (Somme) WWI
66. Picquigny - WWI
67. Airaines (Somme) WWI
68. Abbeville - WWI
69. Abbeville - WWI
70. Airaines (Somme) WWI
71. Guerre 1914-1916
72. Cairo - woman and her baby
73. Abbeville - WWI
74. Egyptian types and scenes - cake seller
75. Assuan - Elephantine Island
76. Abbeville - Hotel Dieu ancien Cloitre
77. Abbeville - L'Eglise du Saint-Sepulcre
78. Abbeville - Cimetiere d'Abbeville
79. Abbeville - Vieilles Maisons sur la Somme
80. Airaines (Somme) Chateau de Dourier
81. Picquigny - L'Escalier Saint-Jean
82. Airaines (Somme) - Le Haut de la rue Tripier
83. New Year Greetings card
84. A peaceful Easter
85. Abbeville - L'Hotel-Dieu
86. Abbeville - La Caserne Courbet
87. Abbeville - Place Saint-Pierre
88. Abbeville - L'Avenue de la Gare
89. Abbeville - Le Quartier de Cavalerie
90. Abbeville - Le Musee d'Abbeville
91. Abbeville - Le Port
92. Airaines (Somme) - Mairie
93. Picquigny - La Collegiale et le Donjon
94. Guerre 1914-1916
95. Guerre 1914-1916
96. Guerre 1914-1916
97. Guerre 1914-1916
98. Guerre 1914-1916
99. Guerre 1914-1916
100. Guerre 1914-1916
101. Guerre 1914-1916
102. Abbeville - monument de L'Amiral Courbet
103. Abbeville - L'Eglise Saint-Jacques
104. Guerre 1914-1916
105. Egypt - landscape near Cairo
106. Egypt - sunset on the desert
107. Assuan - Station Road
108. Cairo - the Tombs of Mamelouks
109. Le Caire - vue de la Pyramide - dated 24 November 1915
110. Christmas card - young man.
111. Card We all Love Lizzie Queen Elizabeth
112. Pants May you have the luck never to tear 'em....
113. To wish you a prosperous New Year
114. Cairo - Barrage Bridge, December 10, 1915
115. Abbeville - Le Musee
116. Amesbury Parish Church
117. Cairo - the Pyramids - On active service - letter on back
118. Karnak, Egypt - dated 7.5.1916. Letter on the back.
119. Two cats.
120. Picquigny
121. Grafton Bridge, Auckland - letter on the back. 16.6.1910
122. Photo of young girls with bells.
123. Napier, 1873. FGR. Letter on the back from Woodville. 1.12.1912
124. Love from Stratford - glitter.
125. Christmas card - letter on the back. 1.2.1910.
126. Christmas card - letter on back. Dec 21 1906.
127. Birthday Joys be thine. Dated 29 September 1913
128. Photograph inside a church - being decorated with produce.
129. Days Bay Recreation Grounds, Wellington. 1.6.1907
130. Cable Station, Nelson. Letter on the back. 1 July 1907.
131. Christmas card - Bethlehem.
132. Upper Symond Street, Auckland. 26 August 1909.
133. Birthday card. 29 September 1913.
134. Congregational Church, Palmerston North. 5.12.1907.
135. Inglewood Railway Station. 11.4.1907.
136. Christmas card - 1920.
137. Birthday card.
138. Birthday card may buds of hope and blossoms...
139. Birthday card Love from Midhirst dated 20.1.1920. Letter on back.
140. Boat house, Recreation Grounds, New Plymouth.
141. Photograph of car full of men.
142. Photograph of men with Christmas Greetings from Warea Factory Staff, 1912.
143. Photograph of two women and a young girl.
144. Photograph of car full of men. See 141.
145. Heliopolis - monument of the first Aviateur.
146. Cartoon I'd love to fly with you.
147. Cartoon A fly in the sky is worth two in the eye.
148. A plane with Greetings from Pahiatua envelope which shows photographs.
149. Christmas card with love
150. The inside of a card only To Thelma from Miss Crawford, 1925
151. Cartoon The flapper & the fly
152. Many Happy Birthdays
153. Birthday Greetings - embossed.
154. Manawatu Gorge, 3.12.1907.
155. Abbeville -L'Eglise Saint-Gilles
156. 21 Birthday card With all good wishes - letter on the back.
157. Cartoon The Officer's Mess
158. Photograph of two houses. 23 April, 1912.
159. Egypt
160. Birthday card - with a photograph of a boat on front.
161. Birthday card My Birthday wish dated 29.9.1910.
162. Birthday card - photograph of a waterfall.
163. Gardens Ngaire, Taranaki. Silver.
164. Mount Egmont from Marsland Hill, New Plymouth. Silver. August 10, 1912.
165. The Pass of Llanberis, 1911.
166. Heliopolis - Pyramids street.
167. Embroidered card - Souvenir de Glorieuse 1914-1915. French.
168. Dartmoor Post Bridge.
169. Greetings from Auckland. 27 July.
170. Abbeville - Le Musee Boucher de Perthes.
171. Recreation Grounds, New Plymouth. 19 July 1911. Stamp and letter.
172. Birthday card Round comes your birthday
173. Photograph K Jam Factory, Nelson
174. Photograph of a car parked in front of a tree with a tunnel.
175. Lake Te Anau
176. Birthday Wishes May your life be like the flowers...
177. A Happy Xmas from Stratford
178. Christmas Greetings and Good wishes...
179. Christmas card To wish you a bright and happy Christmas-tide
180. Photograph Victoria Road, Devonport, 11.10.1921.
181. Christmas card My heartfelt wishes...
182. Loving Christmas Greetings - Lily of the Valley. 1907.
183. Chapell de Matarieh
184. For your Birthday
185. Many Happy Birthdays September 29, 1908.
186. Hearty wishes from Inglewood
187. Mokau Heads from Māori Village, New Plymouth. May 29, 1907.
188. Birthday card May sunshine fill your Birthday morn… 29 September 1920.
189. Christmas card. 1914.
190. Birthday card, April 6 1919.
191. Lest we forget… Troopship No 31 October 31 1915.
192. Birthday card May joy be ever like a rose in bloom…
193. Airaines (Somme) Les tours du chateau.
194. Airaines (Somme) Rue Saint-Denis
195. Rangtotu Camp.
196. Photograph of a baby.
197. Mount Egmont from Inglewood. 14 September 1907.
198. Photograph of two children – Ivan and Iris. 1 November 1919.
199. With best wishes card.
200. Our heart’s in Maoriland to-day… From Tariki
201. Kind regards from Midhurst – glitter. 28 September 1909.
202. Religious card God commendeth His love…
203. Religious card When I survey the wondrous cross…
204. Nought but Happy Hours… 4 January 1911.
205. Birthday card 29.9.1912.
206. A Happy Christmas “I wish as I watch the shades of even fall fast…
207. To Dear Uncle – Birthday Greetings 26 April 1920
208. All New Year Happiness Xmas 1914.
209. Rotorua Express Train leaving Auckland. 9 April 1907.
210. Birthday Card.
211. Chapelle de Matarieh
212. Pansy
213. Photograph A Māori Fisherman, Great Barrier, Auckland.
214. Birthday card - flowers.
215. Christmas Greetings to my dear Old Friend
216. Bournville Lane (Men's Pavilion).
217. Whitlingham, on the Yare
218. Birthday card Life turn to you its sunny side... 29 September 1909
219. Birthday card.
220. Xmas 1909.
221. Fern Arch, Buller Gorge.
222. Birthday card.
223. WWI Army photograph - soldiers.
Production date
1900-1921
Production technique
Media/Materials description
Album: linen hard cover with embossed flower on the front - art nouveau. Pages are paper; postcards are printed with ink on card.
Measurements
album: Height x Width: 418 x 255mm
postcards, individually: Length x Width: 140 x 86mm
Subject person
Subject date
1900-1921
Other number(s)
m2010/88/1-223, 58741

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