The Australian War Memorial Collection. Test site
This series contains cards sent to friends and relatives with a general message of greeting. Typical images used were the swallow, the pansy (which was a very popular image in silk cards. Its popular meaning at the time was 'you occupy my thoughts'), roses (love) and forget me nots (meaning true love, memories). Horseshoes and four leaf clovers were also popular as symbols of good luck and remembrance was a very important aspect of these cards, many having the legends "Sweet remembrance", "Forget me not" or "Thinking of you".
This series includes both silk postcard and plastic postcards
This series contains cards embroidered with messages for relatives such as fathers, aunts, brothers and children (mothers, wives and sisters are held in different series). As with the general greeting
This series contains greeting, birthday and Christmas cards embroidered with messages for wives and sweethearts. The primary images are roses and pansies. All roses symbolize love, but certain colors
This series contains cards with message for sisters. Flowers dominate the images used by the embroiderers. Particularly pansies (meaning 'you occupy my thoughts') and roses (love).
This series contains greeting postcards embroidered with messages for mothers. As with the general greeting postcards flowers, such as roses (meaning love) and pansies (meaning 'you occupy my thoughts
Embroidered silk card, decorated with a swallow carrying a sprig of forget-me-nots, and the words "To my dear sweetheart", with the word "Remembrance" printed below. The inside pages are printed with
Album of sheet music titled 'The songs of Scotland, Volume 1: a collection of one hundred and ninety songs', edited by Josiah Pittman and Colin Brown. The lyrics have been edited by Charles Mackay, to