tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-32570460.post1359572168743808867..comments2024-03-13T07:34:24.149+00:00Comments on The Age of Uncertainty: Postcards from the FrontSteerforthhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07627936539372313828noreply@blogger.comBlogger2125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-32570460.post-37093291871780838982008-11-17T17:49:00.000+00:002008-11-17T17:49:00.000+00:00My favourites are the really sentimental ones with...My favourites are the really sentimental ones with soldiers and sweethearts. I also have a wonderful series called 'Don't Go Down in the Mine Dad'. Priceless.Steerforthhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07627936539372313828noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-32570460.post-64971037423207232612008-11-16T18:23:00.000+00:002008-11-16T18:23:00.000+00:00Amazing! A friend has a collection of hand-tinted ...Amazing! A friend has a collection of hand-tinted postcards and even different versions of the same card, hand-tinted in different colours to pretend the sweethearts were wearing different clothes, some early in the war showing blood soaked war scenes, but more sanitised cards with less emphasis on death in glory by the end of WWI.<BR/>Young men home on leave would pose for many of these postcards, using their real-life uniforms and the same young men and women turn up again and again, depending on which photographic studio in which area was producing them. I have begged her to write a book on the subject - or even a drama about these photographic studios and what happened to the subjects!The Poet Laura-eatehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07779308486569849157noreply@blogger.com