Browse Items (624 total)

  • Collection: James Downing Collection

JDCP 484.tif
Postcard. 140mm x 88mm. Halfpenny stamp. Postmarked 2nd April 1914. Published by The Photchrom Co. Ltd. in the Celesque Series. Addressed to Miss Jenny McPherson, Rothesay, Scotland. Message from Susie? at 12 Morrab Road thanking her for the photos.…

JDCP 460.tif
140x90mm. Novelty postcard. 'The Cream of the Views from Penzance'. Flap over picture of a pot of cream can be lifted to reveal concertina of miniature photographs of Penzance and the surrounding area. Photos look Victorian/Edwardian era. George V…

JDCP 463.tif
Tinted Pictorchrom postcard, 14cm x 9cm, Celesque Series, Copyright Design no 954. Painting of a seated woman watching a sailing boat leaving harbour west of St Michael's Mount.

JDCP 462.tif
Tinted Pictorchrom postcard 14cm x 9cm showing four luggers leaving Penzance Harbour. No message or address on reverse. Note gas holder and tall ship in harbour. Leading lugger numbered 36 PZ. This is the reverse of the current registration system.

JDCP 466.tif
Postcard. 140mm x 90mm. Postmark 29th Sept 1906. Peacock Brand Autochrom post card. Message from Herbert Osborne to E Metters Tavistock Golf Club. Taken from allotments north of Gulval Church.

JDCP 510.tif
Postcard. 138mm x 89mm. No stamp, postmark, address or message. Half-penny postage. Published by the Pictorial Stationery Company in the Peacock Autochrom Series. Tinted photograph of the interior of St John's Church.

JDCP 546.tif
Postcard. 138mm x 88mm. Half-penny stamp. Postmarked 13th October 1908. Published by The Pictorial Stationery Co, Ltd, London. Serial no 5388. Badly faded message in pencil on the reverse, possibly deliberately erased. Addressed to Mrs Pascoe, Willow…

JDCP 543.tif
Postcard. 138mm x 87mm. No stamp, postmark, address or message. Published by Royal Academy Postcards Ltd. Sepia image of Quay Street. The Dolphin Inn is on the left, the Customs House centre, Trinity House building on the right, and St Mary's Church…

JDCP 557.tif
Postcard. 137mm x 87mm. No stamp, postmark, address or message. Published by Thomas Illingworth and Co (TIC). Sepia image of the unveiling ceremony at the war memorial, Battery Rocks, May 14th 1922. The Bishop of Truro officiated and the unveiling…

JDCP 475.tif
Postcard. 138mm x 90mm. No stamp, postmark, address or message. No publisher information. Black and white photograph of whales stranded at Long Rock. Penzance in background.

JDCP 478.tif
Postcard. 140mm x 88mm. Postmark Penzance 27th April 1911. Note from George to his sister, Miss R Brown in Reading asking for two bags of biscuits. No pubisher information. Faded black and white image taken from above Chyandour of Eastern Green and…

JDCP 473.tif
Postcard. 139mm x 88mm. No stamp, postmark, address or message. No printer or publisher mentioned. Divided back. Serial no 73760. Colour pictures of Trereife Avenue, Market Jew St, Morrab Gardens, Mousehole and a General View of Penzance before the…

JDCP 474.tif
Postcard. 142mm x 88mm. No stamp, postmark, address or message. Printed in Great Britain. Divided back. Five sepia views of Land's End, St Michael's Mount, Bolitho Gardens, Jubilee Pool and Seagulls,

JDCP 461.tif
140x90mm. Sepia postcard of the Promenade taken at junction with Alexandra Road, near Beachfield Hotel. Serial number of card suggests photo registered in 1922. Photo probably taken a little earlier. No message, stamp or postmark on reverse.…

JDCP 480.tif
Postcard. 139mm x 88mm. No postmark, stamp, message or address. Produced by Valentine's as part of the Photo-Brown series. Serial number 90179. This suggests a date of 1923 which seems a bit early. This a sepia version of JDCP 480, probably the…

Postcard. 138mm x 88mm. Postmarked Penzance 6th August 1909. Souvenir Post Card. Valentine's Series. Printed in G.B. Birthday greetings from Marion and Lil to Gertie Lawton, Birmingham. Three views of Penzance and one of Land's End.

JDCP 492.tif
Postcard. 138mm x 88mm. No stamp, postmark, message or address. Published by Valentine's postcards. Divided back. Black and white view of Penzance harbour and town from Lescudjack Hill Fort looking out over the Coastguard Station. The houses on the…

JDCP 471.tif
Postcard. 138mm x 87mm. Stamped and postmarked Penzance, August 6th 1909. Valentine's Series. Addressed to Miss S Lawton, Birmingham wishing her Happy Birthday from Marion and Lil. Four hand-coloured views of The Mount, Market Jew St, The Promenade…

JDCP 507.tif
Postcard. 138mm x 87mm. No stamp, postmark, address or message. Valentine's Carbotype Series. Sepia photograph of Penzance Station from Chyandour Cliff. Serial number 59367 dates the photograph to around 1907.

JDCP 504.tif
Postcard. 137mm x 89mm. Postmarked August 29th 1904. No message. Addressed to Mr JH Sandrey, c/o Messrs JJ Hosking and Co. Merchants, Marazion. Published in Vaughan T Paul's Series. Black and white photograph of St John's Church and Vicarage. Hand…
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