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| The Gorge Road, Beechworth, Vic. Rose Series, P10559. |
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| Reid's Creek, Beechworth. Rose Series, P10543. |
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| The Elephant Rock, Beechworth. No 12. |
These three postcards of the Beechworth area come from a biscuit tin in which George Griffith's daughter Mary Jane Eynon (who was born in Silver Creek, Beechworth) kept sentimental fragments of letters, cards, receipts, postcards and photographs, mainly from her children. On the back of one of these postcards was written "1922" in pencil, which is a match for the date on the back of a postcard of Camp St, Beechworth posted earlier on this blog.
The writing is hard to identify. It doesn't appear to be Mary Jane herself - she learnt to write back in the 1860s and her writing is of a distinctive style. Her children were taught a particular script at school in Fitzroy and the formation of their letters is quite similar, so taking a not-very-wild guess, the postcards were given to Mary Jane by one of her children in 1922 as a memento of her birthplace.
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