Rose Card, Birch-Bark Post-cards or Report on Injury Changes in Correspondence during the first World War
Abstract
Teh paper desribes the importance that correspondence gained during the war years of 1914-1918.In its first part it characterises the system for mailing post, their function and formats and, with several examples, it offers a retrospective view on the strengths and limitations of communication as it was changed by the war. In its second part i points out the changes during the First Wolrd War in the descriptive motif of picture postcards and correspondence sheets how markedly the visual perception changed in the general public.
The author argues that the importance of communication through correspondence grew significantly due to soldiers being far from their families and therefore the postal service gained the power to change people's way of thinking and their habits.