You definitely don’t wish you were here: Postcards in the age of covid
sure has a house full of the virus. It’s on hundreds of postcards that the Columbia, Md., collector has amassed over the last three years.There are postcards of health-care workers battling the spiky globular virus, of cityscapes emptied by the pandemic, of fanciful outfits designed to maintain social distancing . So many covid-related postcards have come out in the last three years that Clarissa and a fellow collector have created an online database of them.
She started when she found 2,000 postcards that her late grandfather had amassed. That was in Italy. Her grandfather, she said, was something between a collector and a pack rat, which probably describes any of us consumed by the desire to acquire … things — or lots of aPostcards, Clarissa said, are especially collectible. That’s because a single postcard can appeal to myriad types of collectors.
In the early 1900s, postcards were a way to spread news. If you’d moved away from your hometown, you might not have heard about some local disaster. It wasn’t just the message inked on the back of a card that informed you — it could be the photo on the front. Entrepreneurial photographers would take pictures, print postcards and hope to sell them. I have a World War I-era postcard that shows a building in Yorkshire destroyed by a Zeppelin raid.
“The Chinese had a clear style you can recognize,” Clarissa said. “Most of them were by artists sponsored by the government or other entities, so they have a certain propaganda feeling.”That’s at least as compared to American ones, she said. Ours tend to have a lighter tone, like “Greetings from my backyard” rather than “Greetings from Ocean City.”
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