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thats-a-lot-of-cortisol · 10 months ago

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Gotta love cataloging sometimes

Caption of a postcard from the Mexican Revolution w/ a photo of a dead soldier on it: "that's a real dead body!" Yeah?? It sure is?? Bestie whoever you're showing this to probably lived through the American Civil War and/or is living through World War I I think they believe you

And another one (more dead soldiers): "kisses 🥰🥰 from your pookums!! <3 <3" sent to a woman in fucking Cornwall England

#i get The Reasons why people did that #(photography recently becoming accessible and real-photographic postcards being A New(ish) Thing)#(esp war photography and the concept of being able to actually *show* people around the world EXACTLY what's happening around you)#but like. Geoffrey we could do without the war tourism please and thank you #people are fighting a full-blown revolution. you're in a war zone. stop being Silly Goofy before your Silly Goofy ass gets riddled with lead #these are not the first postcards w/ dead bodies on them nor will they be the last #(items from/about the Mexican Revolution is one of my workplace's biggest collections)#i might be paraphrasing the second one a liiiiitle bit #he didnt say pookums but that was def the vibe #im not. like. angry. mostly just frustrated and a bit nauseous #other highlights (/s) from this batch include a white man posing with child soldiers #and a slur i didn't know existed until i got Bad Vibes from the word and looked it up to make sure #cataloguing #digital collections #libraries #archiving #metadata #jay rambles #my post

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