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Collected Item: “A Postcard From a Friend”

Give your story a title.

A Postcard From a Friend

What sort of object is this: text story, photograph, video, audio interview, screenshot, drawing, meme, etc.?

Photograph of a postcard

Tell us a story; share your experience. Describe what the object or story you've uploaded says about the pandemic, and/or why what you've submitted is important to you.

HUM402
Sent to me by a friend who lives less than half an hour from me, this is an example of how the world has reverted in some ways during the pandemic. Written letters and postcards are largely objects of the past, yet this was an effort at analog connection in the digital world, one that required thought and care to produce.

Use one-word hashtags (separated by commas) to describe your story. For example: Where did it originate? How does this object make you feel? How does this object relate to the pandemic?

postcard, tasmania, analog, kindness, historical, personal

Who originally created this object? (If you created this object, such as photo, then put "self" here.)

Chloe Bailey and Tristan Williams

Give this story a date.

2020-04-27
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