Petra van Cronenburg on Nostr: Often emigrants sent such cards to their families in Europe to show that they live ...

Often emigrants sent such cards to their families in Europe to show that they live now in "the land of milk and honey". It was to show that they were fine (even if reality was hard) or to ask the rest of the family to come, too. Imagine the effect to get such a card after WWI, in a destroyed country, flue epidemy killing the rest ...
I didn't know that the idea was so old (my family sent one in 1923). I once made an art book about emigration for a NY library with this page: