- Collection:
- Ellen Payne Odom Genealogy Library Postcard Collection
- Title:
- The Highland Light Infantry City of Glasgow
- Creator:
- Elms Publishing Co. (Edinburgh, Scotland)
- Publisher:
- Edinburgh, Scotland: Elms Publishing Co.
- Date of Original:
- 1930/2021
- Subject:
- Military uniforms--Scotland
- Location:
- United Kingdom, Scotland, Edinburgh, 55.95206, -3.19648
- Medium:
- postcards
- Type:
- Still Image
- Format:
- image/jp2
- Description:
- Postcard (color, white border, divided back, 3 1/2 x 5 1/2 inches) Title on reverse: The Highland Light Infantry, City of Glasgow - The Highland Light Infantry (HLI) was a light infantry regiment of the British Army formed in 1881. This card is one of a series of 82 depicting statuettes made in the 1930s. They were replicas of the carved wooden models designed by Charles d’Orville Pilkington Jackson (1887-1973) for the opening of the Scottish United Services Museum in 1933. Text on reverse: The Highland Light Infantry, City of Glasgow - 71st Raised 1777. 74th Raised 1787. Officer 73rd Highland Regiment (Lord McLeod’s) 1778. Statuette carved in oak and coloured, from the series by Pilkington Jackson, showing the dress of the Regiments from 1633 in the Scottish National Naval and Military Museum. Printed in Scotland.
- Metadata URL:
- https://dlg.usg.edu/record/zgz_epogpc_mccls-pstcrd-332
- Digital Object URL:
- https://dlg.usg.edu/record/zgz_epogpc_mccls-pstcrd-332#item
- IIIF manifest:
- https://dlg.usg.edu/record/zgz_epogpc_mccls-pstcrd-332/presentation/manifest.json
- Language:
- eng
- Extent:
- 1 postcard : col. ill.
- Original Collection:
- Ellen Payne Odom Genealogy Library Postcard Collection
- Holding Institution:
- Moultrie-Colquitt County Library System
- Rights:
-
