| Description | This bundle includes 21 greetings cards sent to Miss Hodge, later Mrs Whitaker, by students of the Malayan Teachers' Training College both whilst they were at the College and afterwards. Each card is numbered individually: 1. Chinese design, pop-up Christmas card with glitter, c.1954; 2. scraper board card design; 3. Card sent by Mr and Mrs Gurney, of a woodcut design of Arrow Bank by Syed Ahmad; 4. Malayan Teachers' Training College card woodcut design featuring traditional dancers; 5. Christmas card featuring poinsettias and tied with red ribbon, signed by 12 students; 6. Front of a greetings card featuring a woven panel in gold and black, showing a traditional Malaysian house, c. 1957; 7. Traditional stage coach and four design embossed in gold on a cream background with gold inner; 8. Front of a New Year card, showing a traditional Malaysian scene; 9. Traditional Christmas Card with bauble design; 10. Christmas card with traditional three wise men design, embossed in gold on a red background; 11. Christmas greetings card bearing the crest of the University of Malaya, Kuala Lumpur; 12. Christmas greetings card bearing the crest of the Malayan Teachers' College, Penang, Malaya on the front and an engraving of the College inside; 13. Traditional Christmas candle design card, including a passport sized photograph of the sender; 14. Christmas card with a modern figurative design, also including a black and white photograph, 1965; 15. Front cover of a Christmas lantern design card; a lengthy message is written on the reverse, 1966; 16. Chinese flower design greetings card, signed by attendees at the Alumni reunion, Kuala Lumpur, 1-2 June 1987. Items 17-20 are incomplete, the front covers having been removed with only the greetings parts of the cards remaining. Item 21 is a textile with an embroidered farming design, with a greeting from a student on the reverse, dated 18 Dec 1957 and item 22 is an example of a Chinese paper cut design, c.1970s. |