Fifteen members of the Hamilton Tigers stand in a row, unsmiling. They're pictured on a weathered, undated, sepia-toned postcard. That antique postcard now sits in a box, like 4,000 others that offer glimpses into the past, in the McMaster University library. "What really struck me was the number of postcards people used to send of disasters." Fires, shipwrecks and floods are all pictured on various postcards in the collection.
Library staff have launched an online crowd-sourcing campaign to label the postcards with their country, city and date of origin. nyone interested in contributing to the project can visit postcards.mcmaster.ca to help categorize the postcards.
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