Gallagher – Postcard album
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| Creator |
Gallagher, Adelaide ‘Ada’ |
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| Item number |
SP2011/2-1 |
| Access rights |
Request at location |
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| Description from source |
0 – Whole, H: 28.5 x W: 22.5 x D: 7.5cm (H: 285 x W: 225 x D: 75mm) A postcard album, compiled by Ada Gallagher and her daughter Girlie Andersen (nee Gallagher) throughout World War I and into the 1930s. Originally owned by Adelaide ‘Ada’ Gallagher (nee Delarue) this 50-page album housed 134 postcards, the majority dating from World War I. In 1914, at the outbreak of war, Ada was living with her husband, John, daughter, Mary, usually known as Girlie, and her two younger sons, Fred and Frank, at 52 Gloucester Street in The Rocks. All three of Ada and John’s sons enlisted in the First Australian Imperial Force. |
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