Postcards as important historical artifacts.
In reviewing this site it should be appreciated that these cards were produced in the pre-electronic age. Postal cards were a universal medium of communication at a time when the only avenues of mass communication were printed newspapers, journals, books, posters and the mail. It is therefore proper to consider "mail with a message", which is what postal cards are, as a medium of mass communication. Postal cards were immensely popular and the economic mainstay of a vast and diverse printing industry throughout western Europe. Postcards were inexpensive, inexpensive to send, ubiquitously available and endlessly creative in the message their pictures conveyed. Because they were a major means of communication, postcards were produced to communicate the full range of human thought and intent. From humor to nostalgia to joy to hate. It is precisely for this reason that they are important cultural and historical artifacts. In times of war there is a distillation of belief and motivation and emotion that is clearly reflected in the cards displayed on this website. They are not merely snapshots of a world at war. They are virtual windows into the minds and hearts of millions who fought that war on the battlefields and the home front as well.
The richness of study to be found in these cards will stimulate, delight and amaze you.
http://www.rockingham.k12.va.us/EMS/WWI/WWI.html
pictures, poems, timlines, important dates
western front
This site was very very interesting as well as entertaining. In reviewing this site it should be appreciated that these cards were produced in the pre-electronic age. Postal cards were a universal medium of communication at a time when the only avenues of mass communication were printed newspapers, journals, books, posters and the mail. It is therefore proper to consider "mail with a message", which is what postal cards are, as a medium of mass communication. Postal cards were immensely popular and the economic mainstay of a vast and diverse printing industry throughout western Europe. Postcards were inexpensive, inexpensive to send, ubiquitously available and endlessly creative in the message their pictures conveyed. Because they were a major means of communication, postcards were produced to communicate the full range of human thought and intent. From humor to nostalgia to joy to hate. It is precisely for this reason that they are important cultural and historical artifacts. In times of war there is a distillation of belief and motivation and emotion that is clearly reflected in the cards displayed on this website. They are not merely snapshots of a world at war. They are virtual windows into the minds and hearts of millions who fought that war on the battlefields and the home front as well.
http://www.threeworldwars.com/world-war-1/ww1.htm
real causes of world wars
lusitania
This site contains iformation about the lusitania sinkings that occured by the Germans.This site was very very interesting as well as entertaining. In reviewing this site it should be appreciated that these cards were produced in the pre-electronic age. Postal cards were a universal medium of communication at a time when the only avenues of mass communication were printed newspapers, journals, books, posters and the mail. It is therefore proper to consider "mail with a message", which is what postal cards are, as a medium of mass communication. Postal cards were immensely popular and the economic mainstay of a vast and diverse printing industry throughout western Europe. Postcards were inexpensive, inexpensive to send, ubiquitously available and endlessly creative in the message their pictures conveyed. Because they were a major means of communication, postcards were produced to communicate the full range of human thought and intent. From humor to nostalgia to joy to hate. It is precisely for this reason that they are important cultural and historical artifacts. In times of war there is a distillation of belief and motivation and emotion that is clearly reflected in the cards displayed on this website. They are not merely snapshots of a world at war. They are virtual windows into the minds and hearts of millions who fought that war on the battlefields and the home front as well.