"Picture postcards, especially from the early twentieth century, are versatile records documenting images, correspondence, printing processes, advertisement, and even the ephemeral, all at once. Researchers exploring the postcard's potential, have recognised that these objects can offer valuable insights into various societal aspects [...]. The materiality that resides in objects provides us with a framework for storytelling, as they can only be created, shaped and exist through social interaction, thus becoming evidence of the production of the social [...]. Objects are the primary data to elucidate the structure of social and cultural contexts. What makes them remarkable is precisely ‘their substance […] used to make sense of social life’ by existing in ‘one place at one time’ [...]."
Larissa Casteliani Marinho Falcao, Norio Maki: Pictures worth a thousand words. The 1923 Great Kantō Earthquake told by the material culture of postcards. In: International Journal of Disaster Risk Reduction. Volume 116, 2025, 105130, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ijdrr.2024.105130.
