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Postcards

 Subject
Subject Source: Library of Congress Subject Headings
Scope Note: Created For = TD

Found in 10 Collections and/or Records:

Album of postcards from Greenwood's trip to Canada, the USA and Mexico, 1958

 Item
Identifier: Coll-1057/6/3
Scope and Contents

Includes 48 postcards from places, hotels and attractions around Canada, Mexico and the United States of America.

Dates: 1958

Assortment of items from bound volume, 1946-1960, 1946-1960

 File
Identifier: Coll-1057/3/5/4
Scope and Contents

Contains: bills and postcards from Alan Greenwood's trip to the USA (1946); programmes, invitations, menus and photographs from various events, including group photographs from the Chick Producers Association conference in Bournemouth (October 1950), official Ministry of Agriculture dinner, the World's Poultry Congress, Paris (August 1951), Pakistan Embassy Lunch, World's Poultry Science Association (August 1951); and various press cuttings (1959-1960).

Dates: 1946-1960

Assortment of items from bound volume, 1951-1973, 1951-1973

 File
Identifier: Coll-1057/3/5/7
Scope and Contents

Contains: articles about the Poultry Research Centre, menu for R.G White's retirement dinner, signed by all attendees (March 1951); copy of printed interview 'Poultry Breeding: A June Broadcast' by Alan Thompson and Alan Greenwood, menus, booklets and postcards from Greenwood's visit to the USA (1953); handwritten notes on 'remarks for Royal Society Club' (c.1963); photographs of Greenwood and colleagues as well as the Poultry Research Centre and various newspaper clippings.

Dates: 1951-1973

Letters from Charlotte Auerbach to Raphael and Ruma Falk

 Fonds — Box CLX-A-1605
Identifier: Coll-2116
Scope and Contents This fonds consists of six letters sent from Charlotte Auerbach to Raphael and Ruma Falk from 1987 to 1992, as well as two postcards. The letters still have their original envelopes, and were sent from Auerbach's home in Grange Loan, Edinburgh to the Hebrew University in Jerusalem. The correspondence is mostly about exchanging news and small talk, in Auerbach's "old age".There is also a typed letter from Prof. Geoffrey Beale to "all old friends of Lotte", dated 16 August 1994...
Dates: 1987-1994

Material relating to Bishop Kenneth Cragg, and to religious subjects

 Fonds — Box CLX-A-1556
Identifier: Coll-1757
Content Description The ms and ts/printed items are: 1 x copy ts sheet 'Islam in India' [1961 statistics], 1p 1 x ts paper, untitled, but concerned with 'talks about Islam', and referring to 'four fortnightly evening meetings, sponsored jointly by the Student Christian Movement and the Islamic Cultural Centre ... held at the Student Movement House in London' [1963], 7pp 1 x copy sheet...
Dates: 1961-2003

Material relating to John Dover Wilson, Regius Professor of English Literature

 Fonds — Multiple Containers
Identifier: Coll-1519
Scope and Contents Collection contains: 1 x recipe book 1 x notebook: 'Ye monthly Brer', from January 1894 1 x bundle assorted postcards (11) send from John Dover Wilson to Dorothy Baldwin before their marriage in 1906, being illustrations of: Bernard Shaw, Henrik Ibsen (2), Walt Whitman, Rudyard Kipling, Charles Darwin, John Ruskin, Professor Huxley, John Burns, G. F. Watts, and cartoon...
Dates: 1905-1964

Papers of John Abercromby, 5th Lord Abercromby of Aboukir and Tullibody

 Fonds
Identifier: Coll-55
Scope and Contents The collection holds a 19th century Irish manuscript with covering letter dated 1884. There are a large number of letters and postcards spanning the years 1881 to 1916. The collection also consists of notebooks on archaeological, philological and linguistic topics; drawings of archaeological artefacts; bundles of studies for The Pre- and Proto-Historic Finns; material on the tabulation of Finnish folk tales; printed items, notes, photographs of the Canary Islands; material including...
Dates: before 1881-1916

Photographs, 19th century-1960s

 Series
Identifier: Coll-1057/6
Scope and Contents

Contains: personal photographs of Alan Greenwood's family, photographs of staff and work at the Poultry Research Centre and an album of postcards from Greenwood's trip to the USA and Canada (1958).

Dates: 19th century-1960s

Photographs of War-Devastated Caen

 Fonds — Volume Dk.2.1
Identifier: Coll-164
Scope and Contents

The collection of photographs and postcards shows the war devastation of Caen, June-July, 1944. The devastation is shown from different elevations, and feature not only the most prominent buildings but also the extent of the damage beyond the central area of the city. Some of the pictures show the streets and buildings of Caen before the bombings.

Dates: 1900-1945

Postcards sent to Marjorie Rackstraw, mostly 1960s

 Sub-Series
Identifier: Coll-705/5/7
Scope and Contents

This sub-series includes postcards sent to Marjorie Rackstraw from all over the world, by various people.

Dates: mostly 1960s