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Title: Gathering Flowers in Scilly Isles card, 1903 [Go to resource]
Description: The idea of the trade card as a brightly coloured collectable picture came from America in the nineteenth century. In Britain trade cards had been usually black and white despite the arrival of multicoloured cards in Europe during the 1880s. The cigarette card and other 'collectable' cards result from the multicoloured trade cards. Despite the potentially exposed aspect of the islands, flower farming has long been a major part of the Scillonian economy. The palm trees in the near distance suggest that the climate is in fact well suited to the cultivation of flowers and the isles have become known in particular for supplying the early narcissus. Format: image/jpeg License: http://www.sopse.org.uk/ixbin/hixclient.exe?a=query&p=gateway&f=generic_sitetext%2ehtm&_IXFIRST_=1&_IXMAXHITS_=1&cms_con_core_subtype%3acms_con_text_what=copyright&%3acms_sys_group=%22sopse%22 Publisher: Huntley & Palmers Rights holder: Reading Borough Council (Reading Museum Service) Subjects: social history
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activityTemporal: start=1903-01-01; end=1903-12-31; Source: Sense of place SE Identifier: http://www.sopse.org.uk/ixbin/hixclient.... Language: en-GB Format: image/jpeg Go to resource More Like this...
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