Bamforth & Company of Holmfirth, Yorkshire, England, was founded by James Bamforth and became a prolific producer of specialty postcards between 1900 and 1920.
Though now most famous for saucy seaside postcards, Bamforth worked in a range of styles producing religious song sets, sentimental wartime cards, photographic views and comic photographic postcards. In addition to postcards, they also produced greetings cards, calendars, lantern slides and films.
One of their most popular lines of cards was the Song Cards of the First World War. Over 600 sets were mass produced using verses of popular songs and featuring live models.
James Bamforth (1842-1911)
However they also published a range of wartime propaganda cartoon postcards, in distinctive monochrome, as well as other postcards with more colourful scenes of a humorous/social comment nature. For examples of these cards, see below.
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