Souvenir - Souvenir Post Card relating to visit of the Great White Fleet, 1908
4984 Souvenir Post Card relating to visit of the Great White Fleet
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The Four 1908 Great White Fleet postcards were part of a larger collection given to a Beacon Cove resident who passed them to the PMHPS via Peter MUNRO>
Port Melbourne Historical & Preservation Society collection
This coloured postcard with a photograph of the Exhibition Building in the centre with crossed hands above & the flags of Australia & the United States on either side was a souvenir of the visit of the Great White Fleet in 1908. There is also a representation of the Statue of Liberty on the left & the Australian Coat of Arms on the right. The sender of the postcard had travelled to Melbourne to shop at Foy's and to see the Great White Fleet.
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Addressed to Miss Bennett, Campbells Creek, Castlemaine.
