Five colour plates of the Royal Family in card folder, artwork by Dorothy Wilding, printing by Rand Litho, 258 x 320mm, condition of folder: fair, condition of plates: very good.
Five shillings of each folder to be donated to British Floods Relief Fund.
In March 1947, the most catastrophic river floods for at least two hundred years occurred in the United Kingdom. The flooding, which inundated nearly all the main rivers in the South, Midlands, and the Northeast of England, was notable for its origins, regional extent, and duration. Impacting thirty out of forty English counties over a two week period, around 700,000 acres of land were underwater. Tens of thousands of people were temporarily displaced from their homes, and thousands of acres of crops were lost. As the event occurred before the era of flood insurance in the immediate aftermath of the Second World War with a backdrop of rationing and significant post-war deprivation, the overall economic impact of this event was catastrophic.(1947 U.K. River Floods: 60-Year Retrospective RMS Special Report )
Dorothy Frances Edith Wilding was a noted English society photographer.
- Size: 258 x 320mm
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