Postcards of Dead Bodies: Grim Souvenirs From The Mexican Revolution |
Would you send a postcard featuring the picture of a dead body of a pile of charred corpses? In this gallery we look at unusual and unsettling postcards from the Mexican Revolution, held by the DeGolyer Library, Southern Methodist University. Some of the postcards from 1910-1920 show dead bodies, the remains of people executed in judgement and killed in combat.
Postcard subjects are often pretty scenes, whimsical women, humorous animals and sometimes satirical politicians – but this is the first set I’ve ever seen a set with the topic being executions.
No matter what the subject is – postcards are often a reflection of culture at the time that the postcard was created. They are a time specific window into our lives and thus worth preserving.
We have acid-free postcard boxes that hold both regular and large postcards.
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