Photo book/scrap book - sent home in 1918
Took some photos of a fairly delicate old book at Mum and Dad's. Dad's maternal grandfather (Richard Worden) sent it back as a gift to his family in Australia while he was serving overseas during WWI. I think, at the time, he was stationed with records groups in various locations, including Alexandria, and sent this book on Jerusalem back. The pressed flowers were either added by his mother, or at a later stage by his wife (he married his wife Clara in 1920).
Photos are a bit blurry - the pages with the pressed flowers and the protective sheets between the colour pages are very fragile (as you'd imagine, being nearly 100 years old, and variously mauled over time by adults/children in the family) and I didn't want to force the pages to flatten enough to photograph so some were in movement as I was taking the photos (if that makes sense - the bindings of the paper pages are still very much intact and quite strong enough to prevent certain pages lying flat unless held down).
Photos are a bit blurry - the pages with the pressed flowers and the protective sheets between the colour pages are very fragile (as you'd imagine, being nearly 100 years old, and variously mauled over time by adults/children in the family) and I didn't want to force the pages to flatten enough to photograph so some were in movement as I was taking the photos (if that makes sense - the bindings of the paper pages are still very much intact and quite strong enough to prevent certain pages lying flat unless held down).