[Editor: This postcard, which incorporates a photo of a man on a horse, in front of a flooded plain, is postmarked 17 August 1910.]
[Front of postcard]
Plenty of water, miles of it.
[Description: A photo of a man on a horse, in front of a flooded plain.]
[Reverse of postcard]
[Handwritten text, in italics]
This was taken after the flood at Poonindie, a very good view.
I suppose you will recognise Arthur on Darby taken on Sunday in his best, mustering Sheep.
All the Lincoln People are well. Mr Skinner is going up to the races.
Good bye for this time,
Maud
[Addressed to:]
Miss Ida Bodholdt
Lee Terrace
Rosewater
Via Pt Adelaide
[No identifying information about the manufacturer was included on the postcard.]
Source:
Original document
Editor’s notes:
Dimensions (approximate): 138 mm. (width), 88 mm. (height).
Even though this postcard was sent after the inauguration of the Commonwealth of Australia (1901), it has a South Australian postage stamp; nationwide postage stamps were not produced until 1913, with the introduction of the “Kangaroo and Map” stamps.
Poonindie = a township on the Eyre Peninsula (South Australia), located to the north of Port Lincoln
See: “Poonindie”, Wikipedia
Pt = an abbreviation of “Port”
[Editor: For ease of reading, the original text has been separated into paragraphs, and punctuation has been inserted as deemed appropriate.]
Dear Ed.
I can see on the postmark/stamp cancellation, where you derived the date of AU(gust) 17, (19)10.
I kept looking in there, and finally discerned the place of posting: “PORT LINCOLN, S.A.”, after discovering that Poonindie is near Port Lincoln, and the reference within the card to “Lincoln”.
Here is a hyperlink to the Wikipedia entry for Poonindie:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Poonindie,_South_Australia
Hope that this helps to pad out the card’s information slightly more.
Hi Raymond, thank you for the information.
However, as it turns out, the “Editor’s notes” section already has an entry for “Poonindie” (as part of the original post), with a link to the Wikipedia page.
Nonetheless, I did not discern “Port Lincoln” as the place of posting, so that was well spotted.
Regards, Ed