Sepia postcard provenance

[Alan Hodgson]

I recently came across an interesting postcard in the belongings of a deceased 92 year old relative. It is of an array of corpses laid out for a photograph with an inscription in Spanish. It is printed in sepia monochrome.
Wondering if it is Mexican revolution c1910. Anyone any idea how this would be in the possession of a Northern England working class family?

[Alan Hodgson]

Thanks Jeremy. I will look into any family links with SW USA.

Reluctant to post an image in case images of dead offend.

[Jeremy]

I research and collect photographs of Arizona and the southwest. I have acquired a number of images, including many postcards from this era, from English collections. There was quite an exchange of miners from England, like  Cornish miners, and men from Swansea, to the mines in the Southwest. Many corresponded regularly with remote family and friends while in America. Without seeing your postcard to verify it is related to the Mexican Revolution it is hard to tell, but if it is, this may help explain its presence in your family's possession.

[Alan Hodgson]

Thanks Tom. It could be Spanish but looking at some of the content on line the Spanish Civil War cards seemed to be produced with colour content, if only with added graphics. I took a guess at Mexican Revolution because the on-line content I could see is predominantly sepia presentation.

This would have been the deceased parent's generation who were Catholic shop keepers in industrial Reddish near Manchester. There is no family lore that connects them with any foreign conflict, hence my surprise at finding this.

[Tom Ruffles PhD, ARPS]

Not Spanish Civil War?  I'm reminded of the opening of Land and Freedom, in which the main character's granddaughter in Liverpool looks through his belongings after his death and finds a cache of documents from his time with the International Brigades.