Title
Postcard of Cousen Jack eating Limpets
Subject
Victorian
Anno
Description
A photographic postcard depicting a man eating limpets with the caption, "Eat limpets and live. Everything all kiff with Cousin Jack". "All Kiff" was a common term used by miners when writing home from abroad. It is thought to have been a distorted interpretation of "OK" which, even in this far-off days, the Americans frequently used. This card, one of the 'Real Photograph Series' produced by E.A. Bragg & Co. of Illogan, Redruth, from about 1900 is an excellent example of many fine 'action' photographs produced by the expert photographic artists with the limited equipment available to them at the time.
Publisher
Morrab Library
Date
c. 1900
Rights
Morrab Library
Format
Print
Identifier
PEOP 9.001
Original Format
photo
Business Name
E.A. Bragg & Co.
Period Costume
N
Subject Era
1900