Postcards as primary source material : a case study examining a 1909 postcard of Jerusalem / author, Monica Cure (independent scholar).

Format:

Website/Database

Author/Creator:

Cure, Monica, author.

Contributor:

Adam Matthew Digital (Firm), contributor, commissioning body, digitiser.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Research.

Methodology.

Genre:

Case studies.

Physical Description:

1 online resource

Place of Publication:

Marlborough, Wiltshire : Adam Matthew Digital, 2021.

Summary:

Postcards are an often underutilized primary source in research. Essential qualities of the postcard when it was first invented, its low cost and ready availability, made it popular among a variety of social classes as well as in different countries. Valuable for much more than their images, postcards can reveal a wealth of information about, among other things, the social attitudes, government policies, popular culture, international relations, and infrastructure of the time and places they were created, sent, and received. This case study will equip you to recognize and understand the different aspects of an early postcard. The format, postmark and stamp, message, and notation of a postcard will yield different historical and cultural insights when analyzed both separately and together. Postcards are highly globalized products, often representing one place, produced in other places, and circulating among still other places, and they must be contextualized accordingly. The sample document for this case study is a postcard with an image of Jerusalem, produced by a multinational company and sent from England in 1909 to Egypt, with a handwritten message that references Malta.

Notes:

Description based on online resource; title from home page (viewed on August 17, 2022).

Publisher Number:

10.47594/RMPS_0121

Access Restriction:

Restricted for use by site license.