IMAGE
Thomson Soda. Caxton Co., Dunedin [Postcard. ca 1915-1918]
- Date
- 1914 - 1918
- By
- Caxton Printing Company (Dunedin, N.Z.)
- Reference
- Eph-A-BEVERAGE-Soft-1915-01
- Description
Postcard shows a New Zealand soldier in the Egpytian desert with a pyramid and army tents in the background. He is smiling and looking down at a bottle of Thomson's soda in the foreground.
Note also that the same illustration was used on a postcard advertising Wai-ronga mineral water - see Eph-B-POSTCARD-Vol-24-04-2
Exhibited in ‘Humble: the life of 100 small objects’, exhibition curated by Barbara Lyon, in the Turnbull Gallery, National Library of New Zealand, 27 August - 17 November 2017.
Other Titles - Thomsons
Quantity: 1 colour photo-mechanical print(s).
Physical Description: Chromolithograph on postcard, 137 x 87 mm.
Provenance: Purchased from Shades Stamp Shop, Christchurch, in 2005.
- Additional description
Alternative form available: Scanned from original. File print in Ephemera Room
- Access restrictions
- Partly restricted - Please use surrogate in place of original
- Part of
- [Ephemera relating to soft drinks, carbonated and aerated beverages]
- Format
- 1 colour photo-mechanical print(s), Ephemera, Chromolithographs, Postcards, Advertisements, Chromolithograph on postcard, 137 x 87 mm., Orientation: Vertical image
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