Description
| Product ID: | 9781803990460 |
| Product Form: | Paperback / softback |
| Country of Manufacture: | GB |
| Title: | Fifty Mysterious Postcards |
| Subtitle: | Pitman Shorthand Messages from the Golden Age of the Postcard |
| Authors: | Author: Kathryn Baird |
| Subjects: | Diaries, letters and journals, Diaries, letters & journals, Palaeography, Social and cultural history, Nostalgia: general, Places in old photographs, Classic travel writing, Palaeography (history of writing), Social & cultural history, Nostalgia: general, Places in old photographs, Classic travel writing, c 1914 to c 1918 (including WW1) |
| Description: | Select Guide Rating Mysterious messages from over a hundred years ago, written in the dying art of Pitman Shorthand The lines, circles, ticks, hooks, dots and dashes of Pitman shorthand used by some postcard writers during the early twentieth century are obscure to most people. Could the mysterious messages contain scandalous gossip, tales of adventure or declarations of undying love? |
| Imprint Name: | The History Press Ltd |
| Publisher Name: | The History Press Ltd |
| Country of Publication: | GB |
| Publishing Date: | 2022-09-15 |