Tit-Bits WWI Postcard Checklist

A dictionary definition for the term tit-bit includes two meanings.  The first and more commonly used definition (sometimes spelled tidbit) refers to a small morsel of tasty food.  The term also has a literary definition being a small and particularly interesting (tasty?) item of gossip or information.  The latter definition became the publishing motif for a widely circulated British magazine titled Tit-Bits founded in 1881 that published bits and pieces of entertaining human interest stories taken from books, periodicals and newspapers from around the world.  The company also produced a number of comic books in multiple languages and in World War I a series of 32 postcards depicting life at the front for the troops.  These postcard views most often portrayed the troops engaged in often humorous non-combat activities during rest periods behind the trenches as opposed to the daily battlefield carnage portrayed in the various published  newspapers of the time.

The postcards are in color and are identified by both a Series Number and Postcard Number.

Twenty-nine are produced in horizontal format; three are produced in vertical format.  Captions appear in a small bold and capitalized black type near the bottom edge of each postcard.