Photographic postcard of a melon frame, Ruhleben internment camp, Germany
Information
Title
Photographic postcard of a melon frame, Ruhleben internment camp, Germany
Record type
Archive
Original Reference
RHS/Ruh/2/1/11
Author or creator
Maker unidentified as at Apr 2014
Date
1917
Scope & content
Black and white photographic postcard of box frame containing six melons. Dimensions 13.8 (w) x 8.9 (h) cm. Printed inscription on recto, ‘Ruhleben Horticultural Society. One of the melon frames. ‘Sutton’s Ringleader’ weight 3¼ lbs each’, numbered 956, typescript inscription on verso, ‘From:- Thomas Howat, Bar 5 Box 13, Ruhleben’, addressed to ‘Rev W. Wilks, MA, VMH’. Undated [1917; an identical image is dated 1917]
Image identical to RHS/Ruh/2/1/12, RHS/Ruh/2/1/13 and RHS/Ruh/2/1/14, with some cropping
Level
Item
Extent
1 photographic postcard
Physical description
13.8 (w) x 8.9 (h) cm. Silver gelatin. Photographic postcard. Black and white
Is part of
RHS archive: Ruhleben Horticultural Society archive