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Gallagher - Postcard album

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Title
Gallagher - Postcard album
Subject
World War, 1914-1918--Sources
War stories
Families--History
Military history
Sydney (N.S.W.)
French language--Writing
Correspondence
Category
3. World War I
Creator
Gallagher, Adelaide ‘Ada’
Current holder
Museums of History New South Wales
Link
https://vernon.mhnsw.au/objects/60100/photograph-album
Item number
SP2011/2-1
Access rights
Request at location
Country of origin
France
Language
English
French
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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