Death Cards

Unflinching reminders of Death in old postcards. Stay for your daily reminder about mortality.

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Postcard:

Death the Strangler: The First Outbreak in 1831 of Cholera at a Masked Ball in Paris, by Alfred Rethel, 1851.

The outbreak killed 20,000 out of 650,000 citizens in Paris - just over 3% of the population.

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Death the Strangler: The First Outbreak in 1831 of Cholera at a Masked Ball in Paris, by Alfred Rethel, 1851.

The outbreak killed 20,000 out of 650,000 citizens in Paris - just over 3% of the population.

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Real photo postcard c.1918-1930:

The aftermath of a tornado, with text at bottom reading "Kansas Farm 5 Killed"

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Hand coloured postcard based on a photo c.1910:

"Digging old graves at Mount Hope [Cemetery, Colón], Panama "

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@InDamnatio The Baroque image is more haunting IMO.

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1906 postcard, with an image of Father Time bottle feeding a baby.

(Art by Finnish artist Albert Edelfelt, 1854-1905)

The message at the bottom says happy new year.

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A hand-coloured postcard from Mexico c. 1910:

Two images, one of a person carrying water, the other, someone carrying something very different - "the city coffin in a Mexican town."

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Postcard c. 1910, location unknown, likely Hong Kong.

"A Chinese burial service."

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Postcard c.1920:

Old Slave Market (on the right), Charleston, South Carolina. It now houses the Old Slave Mart Museum.

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Postcard from the First World War (1916), commemorating the death of British nurse Edith Cavell in 1915.

Cavell helped Allied soldiers escape Belgium and was tried under German military law and executed. Her death was condemned worldwide, and was used in Allied recruitment.

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Postcard from the First World War (1916), commemorating the death of British nurse Edith Cavell in 1915.

Cavell helped Allied soldiers escape Belgium and was tried under German military law and executed. Her death was condemned worldwide, and was used in Allied recruitment.

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@gravedetective I like the stylization of that willow.

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@TraciRylands @NecroTourist @doristhehat @ListerLaneCem @OrdExtraCem @originalroyboy @Jose_Galvan @EagleGranite1 @TomNoller I was kind of thinking one of them should have a monument of them smoking a cigar.

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@apceveryday 😂

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@InDamnatio Very interesting article. I laughed at the part about both French and Englishmen saying it was heretical to suggest the architect was a mad Frenchman. 😂

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Taking a break from literal postcards about death for some juvenile humour about a type of pain that makes you wish you were dead:

Postcard c. 1970, Bamforth Co. (Publisher of humorous cards).

I told you it was juvenile, but admit it, you laughed.

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@odavies9 I really enjoyed A Supernatural War.

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Taking a break from literal postcards about death for some juvenile humour about a type of pain that makes you wish you were dead:

Postcard c. 1970, Bamforth Co. (Publisher of humorous cards).

I told you it was juvenile, but admit it, you laughed.

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@InDamnatio Wow, nice one, really nice one. Haven't been in a foggy cemetery in awhile, this gave me a bit of my fix. 😂

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Hand tinted postcard from 1925, Canton [now Guangzhou], China:

The aftermath of a group execution, with the executioners holding up their implements.

Sent to Brussels with the message [en français], "A souvenir from my time in China."