Old photographs of West Lothian
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Postcard - "A Fight"
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Postcard - "A Fight" Coloured printed postcard showing children fighting
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Postcard - "A Happy Family"
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Postcard - "A Happy Family" Coloured printed postcare showing sentimental scene of family around the dining table
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Postcard - "A Mail Robbery"
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Postcard - "A Mail Robbery" Coloured printed humorous postcard showing postman and children
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Postcard - "Among the Rigs of Barley Oh!"
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Postcard - "Among the Rigs of Barley Oh!" Coloured printed sentimental postcard showing a loving couple in a harvest field.
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Postcard - "An anxious moment"
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Postcard - "An anxious moment" Colour printed sentimental postcard showing child and adult fishing
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Postcard - "A Scotch Washing"
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Postcard - "A Scotch Washing" Coloured printed novelty postcard showing women washing
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Postcard - "A Scotch Washing"
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Postcard - "A Scotch Washing" Coloured printed postcard showing women washing cloths by tramping them in half barrels.
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Postcard - "A Scotch Washing"
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Postcard - "A Scotch Washing" Printed coloured sentimental postcard, showing women washing clothes
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Postcard - "A Scotch Washing"
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Postcard - "A Scotch Washing" Coloured printed novelty postcard showing women washing
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Postcard - "A Scotch Washing"
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Postcard - "A Scotch Washing" Coloured printed sentimental postcard showing women washing clothes
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Postcard - "A Scotch Washing"
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Postcard - "A Scotch Washing" Coloured printed novelty postcard showing women folding washing
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Postcard - "A Scotch Washing"
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Postcard - "A Scotch Washing" Coloured printed novelty postcard showing two women washing clothes in a tub
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Postcard - "A Scotch Washing"
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Postcard - "A Scotch Washing" Printed coloured sentimental postcard, showing women washing clothes
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Postcard - "A Scotch Washing"
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Postcard - "A Scotch Washing" Printed coloured sentimental postcard, showing women washing clothes
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Postcard - "A Typical Scotch Washer-Woman"
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Postcard - "A Typical Scotch Washer-Woman" Coloured printed postcard showing a woman treading clothes in soapy water.
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Postcard - "Blind Man's Buff"
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Postcard - "Blind Man's Buff" Coloured printed postcard showing a group of children playing blind man's buff.
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Postcard - "Carrying Too Much Sail"
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Postcard - "Carrying Too Much Sail" Coloured printed postcard showing a staged photograph of ladies competing for the attention of a sailor. Neither look overly pleased about their situation.
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Postcard - "Getting a drink"
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Postcard - "Getting a drink" Coloured printed sentimental postcard showing two children and a cast iron drinking well
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Postcard - "Gie Me A Canty Lover At Een"
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Postcard - "Gie Me A Canty Lover At Een" Coloured printed postcard showing romantic tryst
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Postcard - "I'm Going Too."
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Postcard - "I'm Going Too." Printed coloured novelty postcard showing child inside a hamper
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Postcard - "Irish Blarney"
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Postcard - "Irish Blarney" Colour printed sentimental postcard showing loving couple against a wooded studio? backdrop
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Postcard - "Left Out"
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Postcard - "Left Out" Coloured printed sentimental postcard showing courting couple and friend
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Postcard - "Looking Through the Paper"
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Postcard - "Looking Through the Paper" Coloured printed humorous postcard showing child with his head through a newspaper.
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Postcard - "Making Rain"
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Postcard - "Making Rain" Coloured printed humorous postcard showing children and a watering can
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Postcard - "Milking Time"
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Postcard - "Milking Time" Coloured printed postcard showing milkmaid and cow
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Postcard - 'Monarch Of All He Surveys'
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Postcard - 'Monarch Of All He Surveys' Staged photochrome colour photographic postcard entitled: 'Monarch Of All He Surveys'. Photographed by Robert Braid (local photographer).
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Postcard - "Music Hath Charms"
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Postcard - "Music Hath Charms" Coloured printed sentimental postcard showing children with musical instruments
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Postcard - "On Furlough"
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Postcard - "On Furlough" Coloured printed humorous postcard showing two courting couples
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Postcard - "Precocious Navigation"
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Postcard - "Precocious Navigation" Coloured postcard depicting a young boy playing with a small boat on a stream
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Postcard - "Robin Tamson's Smiddy"
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Postcard - "Robin Tamson's Smiddy" Coloured printed postcard showing Robin Tamson and his wife at a spinning wheel.
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Postcard - 'That's You'
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Postcard - 'That's You' Staged photochrome colour photographic postcard entitled: 'That's You'.
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Postcard - "The Lazy Horse"
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Postcard - "The Lazy Horse" Coloured printed postcard, illustrating three children playing with a two wheeled, pull-along cart
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Postcard - "The United Service"
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Postcard - "The United Service" Coloured printed postcard illustrating a soldier, a woman, a stile, and a sailor
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Postcard - "The Washing Day"
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Postcard - "The Washing Day" Coloured printed postcard showing a staged washing scene
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Postcard - 'The Young Musician'
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Postcard - 'The Young Musician' Staged photochrome colour photographic postcard entitled: 'The Young Musician'. Photographed by Robert Braid (local photographer).
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Postcard - "'Tis Only Jokin', I Was, - Sure I'll Go Wid Ye to Donnybrook Fair!"
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Postcard - "'Tis Only Jokin', I Was, - Sure I'll Go Wid Ye to Donnybrook Fair!" Coloured printed postcard showing a staged Robert Braid photograph.
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Postcard - "Two of Irish, Sweet and Hot"
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Postcard - "Two of Irish, Sweet and Hot" Coloured printed sentimental postcard, showing a man and a woman in front of heath, with suspended cooking pot
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Postcard - "Waiting for a bite"
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Postcard - "Waiting for a bite" Coloured photographic postcard of child fishing