item details
Name[Portrait of Miss Sybil Mary Lee]
ProductionUnknown; photographer; circa 1917; United Kingdom
Classificationphotographic postcards
Materialscardboard, ink
Materials Summaryphotographic postcard
DimensionsOverall: 83mm (width), 137mm (height)
Registration NumberPS.003215
Credit lineGift of the Butcher and Lee families, 2012
Overview
This postcard features a photographic portrait of Miss Sybil Mary Lee (1872-1956) during the First World War. Miss Lee was a missionary with the Church Missionary Society in New Zealand. In 1915, she was granted six months leave of absence to visit England, but quickly found work visiting Maori soldiers at Wandsworth and Walton-on-Thames hospitals and stayed for two and a half years.
She would have commissioned this postcard possibly to send home to New Zealand. On the back of the postcard she has written: 'Yours sincerely, Sybil M. Lee, April. 1917'.