TitlePostcard homeDate of publication[1891?]SourceMailed from Leeds [postcard]Description
Coloured illustration of a departing steam train with a mailbag on the last carriage. This opens out to 10 concertina-folded black-and-white photographic views of Leeds, namely, The Avenue, Woodhouse Moor; The Mansion, Roundhay Park; City square; Briggate; East End Park; Cross Flatts Park; Town Hall; The Ridge, Headingly; Boar Lane; and, Waterloo Lake, Roundhay Park.
Postcards were developed in the 1890s and provided a cheaper method of communication than letters as postage was cheaper on postcards. The 'divided back' postcard format was introduced in Britain in 1902, where the message and recipient's address could be written on the one side, allowing the front of the card to be used completely for a picture. Postcards were immensely popular especially in an era when photography was an expensive hobby. The cards had attractive images and provided the space for a brief message, in this case from someone travelling in England to whom Miss Ethel Lucy had sent a silver good luck charm.
The concertina drop-down series of images was a popular method of presenting mutiple images of a place.
