postcards and photos from the early-mid 1900s

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Munchen. Haus der Deutschen Kunst

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Very nice to be getting the papers from father. Do you remember I had a snap of this being built last year? It’s finished now and Hitler is coming to open it on Saturday so we’re hoping to see him. There’s to be an enormous procession and decorations are being put up in the streets […]

Munchen. Maximilianstrasse mit Maximilianeum

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Dear Dorothy, Of all things to find in Germany we found a Woolworths here yesterday. This one of their p/cs (4 for 2 1/2 d) and I got 25 big envelopes for 2 1/2 -d I’ll send the next letter in one of them. Dinner here in the Haus last night cost me 3 1/2 […]

125 Munchen. Maximulianeum

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Dear Aunt Jean, I think this is a palace but I haven’t seen it yet. Munich is a beautiful city and has very wide and clean streets. The place we are staying in is a girl student’s hostel and is in a quiet part of the town. We pay 1-/6 for bed and breakfast and […]

M 226. Munchen, Maximilianeum bei Nacht

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We went a walk around this way the other night but it wasn’t floodlit. It is beside the river and Dorothy and Abby are duly impressed by the speed of the [???] of the Isar. We haven’t been in any museums yet but will probably go to this palace and some of the galleries near […]

Munchen, Isar mit Lukaskirche

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Dear Auntie, it’s just above this weir that we saw [???] and you can see the boiling effect in the water on the other side of this bridge. Aren’t the postcards all lovely? I meant to get some at the [???] on Tuesday but forgot, so I’ll need to get them the next time we […]

Munchen, Idyll im Hofbrauhaushof

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Dear Father, thank-you for the Herald which arrived this am. Uncle Jack is fairly excelling himself in his occasional appearances - Three wickets in one over was pretty hot! The whole of the Loius Shandling [???] is on in one of the biggest picture houses but it costs 1.10 for the cheapest seat there. This […]

Munchen, Hofbrauhaus

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Dear Dorothy, thankyou very much for your letter. Do you mean to say you haven’t returned my library after all the times I reminded you still, I haven’t to pay the 1-/4 so it’s not so bad. Congrats on your golf, did you see Helen or Auntie B playing at all? Did you see the […]

Munchen, Odeonsplatz m. Feldherrnhalle

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Dear Dorothy, this shows you the front of the temple place that was in the photographs with the two soldiers that always stand on guard either side of a mem [orial?]-tablet. They’re just around the side of it on the left. The open place in front is where there are always thousands and thousands of […]

Munchen, Deutches Museum

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Dear Auntie, This shows you how elaborate the stonework of the bridges is, you can see the heads carved on the side of the further away bridge too. It’s all very dazzling in bright sunlight and looks lovely. On Saturday we’re going on excursion ??? the Alps Uberammegan (???) with the ??? students at the […]

Munchen, Friedensengel

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Munchen, Friedensengel
A, Lengauer, Munchen Nr 508.