EPHEMERA

Title: '"Happy? Well just look at our sunburnt faces!"'
Object Name: Postcard
Description: Postcard with colour illustration of five people bathing in sea. In the foreground, three people - a man in a red bathing suit, a child in a blue bathing suit, and a woman wearing a yellow and red spotted bathing suit and white shoes, are upside down in water so only their legs and clothed buttocks are visible. In the background, an older woman in a red and white striped bathing suit and an older man in a blue bathing suit glance with smiling faces at the woman in foreground. Message on front reads '"Happy? Well just look at our sunburnt faces!"' Message on reverse reads 'Michael / From Daddy'. Postcard not addressed, stamped or postmarked. Printed on back of card 'PPC "Philco" Series, Comic Series No. 735., British Manufacture.'
Catalogue Number: OMAFP.2013.43.56
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