We Are The People

Slide tackler, 1904

The National Portrait Gallery in London, UK, has a display, which opened ysterday, as well as an on-line presence for the “We Are The People” collection of 1000 postcards from the first half of the 1900s. We have a number of these kind of postcards produced for individuals by photograpy studios including one of my great-uncle John going off as an infantry man to be sent a bit off the norm by the trenches of WWI. They must have been a cheap way to reproduce photos to pass around to family members as none of the postcards we have were ever sent. A few more pics at the BBC. Nice jersey, not quite well left.