Autograph Book
Item
Title
Autograph Book
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Identifier
8950.cpd
Subject
Unknown
Abstract
It was common to have an 'Autograph Book', not used as they are today, but family / friends would add paintings etc.
Editor's Comment:
Red cloth cover with flowers: 'Autographs'; embossed in gold: 'Willie'.
Contains:
Watercolour painting of field, initialled J.T. 1915
Cartoon of spinster surveying news stand: 'Latest War News- | Daily Pail Latest War News | Kitchener Gets Half a Million Men in a Month | Official', with caption underneath: 'Lar! And Here I've tried for Thirty Years and Can't Get One!'. Signed G. C. Evans, 18/5/15.
Song: 'Longue est la route de Tipperary' [It's a Long way to Tipperary]. Signed A. Seymour, Le 4. Octobre 1915.
Pen drawing, soldier with Pickelhauben hanging from bayonet. Captioned: 'A Busy Day'. Signed E. G. Hodder, 4/3/1915.
Editor's Comment:
Red cloth cover with flowers: 'Autographs'; embossed in gold: 'Willie'.
Contains:
Watercolour painting of field, initialled J.T. 1915
Cartoon of spinster surveying news stand: 'Latest War News- | Daily Pail Latest War News | Kitchener Gets Half a Million Men in a Month | Official', with caption underneath: 'Lar! And Here I've tried for Thirty Years and Can't Get One!'. Signed G. C. Evans, 18/5/15.
Song: 'Longue est la route de Tipperary' [It's a Long way to Tipperary]. Signed A. Seymour, Le 4. Octobre 1915.
Pen drawing, soldier with Pickelhauben hanging from bayonet. Captioned: 'A Busy Day'. Signed E. G. Hodder, 4/3/1915.
Date
March - October 1915
Date Created
1915-03-04
Temporal Coverage
1915-10-04
Source
Folio
Medium
Paper
Type
Autograph book
number of pages
5
Contributor
Richard Marshall
Lewis Trickey
Publisher
The Great War Archive, University of Oxford