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- OBJECT TYPE
- Souvenir
- DATE
- 1944
- ARTIFACT NUMBER
- 2010.0074.001
- MANUFACTURER
- Unknown
- MODEL
- Edinburgh The Palace of Holyroodhouse
- LOCATION
- Unknown
More Information
General Information
- Serial #
- N/A
- Part Number
- 1
- Total Parts
- 1
- AKA
- N/A
- Patents
- N/A
- General Description
- Card stock.
Dimensions
Note: These reflect the general size for storage and are not necessarily representative of the object's true dimensions.
- Length
- 14.2 cm
- Width
- 8.2 cm
- Height
- N/A
- Thickness
- N/A
- Weight
- N/A
- Diameter
- N/A
- Volume
- N/A
Lexicon
- Group
- Aviation
- Category
- Archives
- Sub-Category
- N/A
Manufacturer
- AKA
- Unknown
- Country
- Unknown
- State/Province
- Unknown
- City
- Unknown
Context
- Country
- Unknown
- State/Province
- Unknown
- Period
- WWII (1939-1945).
- Canada
-
Collectively, this collection provides a window into some of the more personal aspects of wartime service life for the average Airman, including how he spent his leave. - Function
-
Souvenir. - Technical
-
Unknown - Area Notes
-
Unknown
Details
- Markings
- Caption under picture reads: "Edinburgh The Palace of Holyroodhouse"; printed lettering on back near top reads: "POST CARD/THE ADDRESS TO BE WRITTEN ON THIS SIDE"; lettering hand written in ink on back reads: "This is Holyrood Palace where Mary/Queen of Scots stayed. lord Darnley/was also there. I went through/her rooms. also Lord Darnley's./At the left is a ruined chapel./That high hill at x is Arthur's Seat/I went up to the top one day./quite a climb."
- Missing
- N/A
- Finish
- b + w drawing on front face; green printed lettering & black hand written lettering on back.
- Decoration
- Reproduction of a drawing of the Palace at Holyrood on front face.
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Unknown Manufacturer, Postcard, circa 1944, Artifact no. 2010.0074, Ingenium – Canada’s Museums of Science and Innovation, http://collection.ingeniumcanada.org/en/id/2010.0074.001/
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