Of all the postcards I inherited from my grandfather, I find the ones depicting locations from the First World War the most fascinating. We are so used to being surrounded by images nowadays that we forget it was not always the case. Those postcards most likely served an important illustrative
Of all the postcards I inherited from my grandfather, I find the ones depicting locations from the First World War the most fascinating. We are so used to being surrounded by images nowadays that we forget it was not always the case. Those postcards most likely served an important illustrative
A new postcard from my grandfather's collection: Amiens' Cathedral.
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Today's postcard from Memories from a New Century is interesting because the caption is bilingual, which was quite unusual for that time. I assume it was published during or right after the war when there were still quite a few Anglophone troops in the area writing home. 💡The rest of
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