Children of The Mud Flood. Creepy Repopulation Postcards dated 1880 - 1910.

During our research on Old World Photoshop, we were looking through old surreal postcards and began to notice a very specific style of Old RPPC. These postcards were early photo manipulations of orphans and babies from the 1880s-1910 period. Something is disturbing about these old photos, which only worsened as we realized how many of these postcards there truly were. They have been collected and used as a source of inspiration by artists such as Salvador Dalí, Paul Éluard, André Breton, Hannah Höch, Herbert Bayer, and Man Ray.

They show babies being grown in Cabbage Patches, hatching from eggs, cooked in fires, being hooked from the water, left in empty cities, being transported in trains or aerial vehicles, and sold as cattle. For an in-depth exploration of this phenomenon, complete with a captivating gallery, support us by checking out our first book!:
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There isn't any information on the origin or purpose of these cards, we know they come in several languages, so it was not just one studio, but there are also many different styles. There is a book on this subject, "Babylon: Surreal Babies", however, the author does not connect these postcards to Resets and Orphans Trains but rather sees it as some inventive creative source for the rise in surrealism.

Whatever the case, there is something deeply wrong with these photos, and you can feel it. For that reason, they will be called, REPOPULATION POSTCARDS as multiple translations reveal that they were selling babies, a lottery of babies, and both repopulation and relocation are mentioned. Not to mention the strange origin stories behind the cabbage patch kids. Is this a symbolic reference to genetic engineering and cloning in the 1800s? Diana of Ephesus? The Queen Bee? Reseeding? Ancient Cloning Facilities?

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Mind Unveiled

Below is the narrative for the baby postcards: the reader will notice that the narrative states 'children of the mud flood and intimates that the oversized fruits and vegetables were transported by train. Of interest is that the design of the card had a blank, wherein 'sellers' could fill in their locations! The so-called cabbage patch babies were shown as being manifested upon the earth in more ways than one.

The Cabbage Patch Baby Postcards were a weird & strange phenomenon that took place from the 1880s to 1910. These postcards were early photo manipulations of orphans and babies. They were designed in a surreal-real compositing style, often of French origin but not limited to France.

These postcards depicted infants & babies as being quite literally harvested from the earth, often from cabbage patches. This was based on the traditional idea that babies came from the 'cabbage patch'. Historians try to tell us that these types of cards were often used to announce a birth. The cabbage patch babies were shown as being manifested upon the earth in more ways than one. For example, the same farmer who is dutifully watering his crop in one postcard can be seen attempting to pawn his produce off to respective buyers in another.

This bizarre trend of postcards is an expansion of the research on the children of the mud flood. The mud flood refers to a probable event in which a sudden, unexplained and cataclysmic flood of mud engulfed urban areas.

Also of note is that the postcards often depicted oversized fruits and vegetables being transported by trains, wagons, or people. The images were created by taking a photo of a background landscape and another picture of an object in close-up. The second image was then cut out and placed on top of the first, creating a collage.

Many of these postcards were allegedly made by Edward J Mitchell of San Francisco around 1910. Mitchell worked with up to six colors and made his work available to larger audiences by producing postcards with blanks which sellers could fill in with their locations. The postcards might have been funded by the Southern Pacific Railroad, whose wagons are shown transporting the massive fruit and vegetables around the country.