Postcards and cards

Title

Postcards and cards

Shelfmark

MSS. Atlan. s. 23 / 62

Summary

Postcards and cards of St. Helena (25 items) and:

Ascension Island (4)

Gibraltar (15)

France, Marseille (12)

India, Bengal, mainly Calcutta (22)

Iran, mainly Teheran (67)

Iraq (3)

United Kingdom, mainly Cheddar, Swanage and the Hampshire Regiment (71)

The items relating to St. Helena were produced in the late 20th century but the images include reprints of paintings dating from 1788. The remaining items date from 1909 to 1925.

Postcards of St. Helena:

Public gardens, Jamestown, 1992

The East India Fleet leaving St. Helena by W. J. Huggins. Painting showing the Honorable Company's Ships Inglis, Windsor, Waterloo, Scaleby Castle, General Kyd, Farquharson and Lowther Castle, escorted by HM Frigate Ariadne, 1830

Jamestown by a Canton artist (after Spoilum), copied from G. H. Bellasis' 1806 print, c. 1810

Jamestown by Hubert Cornish, 1798

(Photographs taken by Hearl and Nick Thorpe, published by Hearl for the St. Helena Link 1992-1994)

East Indiamen leaving St. Helena by R. Dodd. Aquatint showing the Neptune at St. Helena, homeward bound from China, 1788

An Eastindiaman off St. Helena by W. J. Huggins, the earliest of his three studies of East Indiamen off St. Helena, 1806

Longwood Races by Louis de Sainson, 16 Jan 1829

The Rollers, Jamestown by Lieutenant Frederick Rice Stack, St. Helena Regiment, 17 Feb 1846

(Published by Hearl, 1996-2000)

Manatee Bay and the Black Rocks, which form part of the Arms of St. Helena

Bank's Battery ruins with Flagstaff in the distance

The Lemon Valley wall and gun emplacements

Gun battery at Thompson's Hill, overlooking Lemon Valley

Sandy Bay wall and gun platform

Gun batteries below Sugar Loaf

Gun batteries at Sugar Loaf, looking towards Jamestown

Prosperous Bay and battery

(Photographs by Edward Baldwin, published for the St. Helena Heritage Society, 1998)

Sandy Bay from Mount Pleasant (number 1 of series)

Plantation House, Official Residence of the Governor (number 2 of series)

Portal of the Castle (number 3 of series)

St. James' Church, Jamestown (number 4 of series)

Longwood House, Home of Exiled Emperor Napoleon (number 5 of series)

Diana's Peak, Mount Actaeon from Longwood (number 6 of series)

(Photographs by Frances Howorth, published by Wilton 65)

1-penny Badge of the Colony stamp designed by Thomas Bruce, postmaster, 1922

(Published by C. J. Masters, Northampton)

Cards

Sea Scouts, St. Helena by Lord Baden-Powell (birthday card reproduced by The Medici Society Ltd.), 1993

Coat of arms of St. Helena (Christmas card), undated

Garden Cottage, Ascension Island

St. Mary's Church, Ascension Island

The Exiles Club, Ascension Island

The Red Lion, Green Mountain Farm, Ascension Island

(the Ascension Island cards feature drawings by Christine A. Avis, published by Northward Press, 1988)

Date

1788-2000

Language

English

Physical extent

1 box