Reference code
IE CA HT/5/12
Title
Gallaher Cigarette Cards
Date(s)
- c.1908-1910 (Creation)
Level of description
File
Extent and medium
2 items; 6.4 cm x 3.5 cm' Photographic print on card; Manuscript
Name of creator
(1615-2023)
Repository
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Scope and content
‘Irish View Scenery’ cards issued by Gallaher Cigarette Company Ltd. The cards are numbered: ‘No. 60: Father Mathew’s R.C. Church, Cork’; ‘No. 310: Father Mathew Statue, Cork’. The cards were issued by Gallaher Ltd. between 1908 and 1910. The complete set runs to 600 cards. Many of the photographs were taken by Robert John Welch from Belfast, and by William Lawrence, a Dublin-based photographer and studio owner. With a cover letter (dated 18 June 1982) to Fr. Nessan Shaw OFM Cap. from Walter McGrath explaining their provenance.
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Name access points
- Shaw, Nessan, 1915-1997, Capuchin priest (Subject)