A large early 20th Century postcard album containing a good ...

Estimate

£300 - £400

A large early 20th Century postcard album containing a good quantity (approx. 254) of interesting postcards relating to social history, social justice, women's suffrage, labour strikes, trade unions, revolutionary socialist including Siege of Sidney Street, political, various carnivals and customs, some humourous postcards, etc, vast majority of postcards pre-1920, and many Real Photo cards. Suffragette postcards include b/w portrait cards Emmeline Pankhurst, Flora Drummond, Lady Frances Balfour (by Elliott & Fry), Annie Kenney, RP portrait Emmeline Pankhurst; series of RP and other postcards traditional festivals and customs, including several RP's Furry Dance, Helston, Cornwall, others similar Ledsham, Stratford-on-Avon Mop 1912, hobby horse May Day customs, Fordingbridge Regatta, Goose Fair Nottingham etc; good quantity various labour strikes and union related, including RP Llwynypia collieries offices, RP South Wales coal strike related, dated verso 1/1911, RP Met Police at Tonypandy coal strike 1910, two RP's Berlin transport workers strike 1919, RP railwaymen's parade, Redhill 1905, RP Jubilee Cwmbach Co-op society June 1910, two RP's Great Strike 1911 military on Peckham Rye, RP strike at Woolwich Arsenal 1914, Tolpuddle Martyrs related RP, RP departure of Lancashire Fusiliers Tonypandy coal strike 1911, three cards scenes at Grays during the Great Dock Strike 1912, RP Liverpool strike 1911, etc etc; 8 postcards Siege of Sidney Street/Battle of Stepney related, of which 3 RP's, 2 captioned "Scots Guard's firing at house in Sidney Street where Hounsditch Assassins were." (No's 1 & 4), the other same series No. 3 captioned "House after Fire in Sidney Street where Hounsditch Murderers Perished", five other b/w postcards of the siege being Valentine's Series (4), and Cortenberg Ltd (1); a few postcards Ireland related, including b/w postcards from photographs "Sackville Street, Dublin (Earl Street Corner) after the bombardment", 1916, by Coleman's, Dublin, "Irish Tenants on an Evicted Holding", by R. Tuck, "Irish Life. An Eviction, Killarney", by R. Tuck; others political related, portrait b/w postcard Errico Malatesta (Italian anarchist, theorist and revolutionary socialist), pit brow girls, Zionist related; good quantity others humorous, continental, curious, RP's etc, including various cycling, RP Professor Reddish cycle dive Worthing Pier, 1908, RP of extremely high bicycle, postmarked Wolverhampton, 1906, b/w postcards "Professor Webb's high dive, Clacton Pier", "P.T. Durney, Champion Ball Walker of the World, Dublin to Belfast, 150 Miles", other pit bank wenches, RP motor car with passengers in harlequin outfits and car adorned with futurist art, humorous continental colour postcards of airships, people flying, strange flying machines etc, beauties, comic, various other RPs British Edwardian life, customs, pastimes etc, all housed loosely corner mounted in a large early 20th Century pictorial cloth album (worn, boards detached but present)