Norris collected many postcards during his time in Europe. The postcards ranged from charming streetscapes to sharply critical caricature. As time wore on, his collection took on a more somber tone. Depicted in this French postcard, a German admiral cheerfully waves farewell to a man clinging to the remains of ship bombarded by the admiral's U-boat, illustrating the belief in the Germans' lack of regard for human life.

In "Mourning the Loss of her Hand," the artist Poulbot depicted a wounded French child mourning the loss of her own hand. The landscape is barren, setting the somber tone of the destruction wrought on the most innocent of victims, a theme which ran trhoughout a series of postcards created by Poublot during the War.

Norris included this card, also by Poulbot, as a haunting reminder of what was lost in the War as well as the purported atrocities committed by the Germans at the most elemental level. This image depicts German soldiers abducting French children who were left orphaned by the war.

The range of tones varied in the postcards purchased by Dr. Norris. This particulalry sentimental image is a painting of a French woman and her family receiving news of her husband's passing during World War I. The bereaved woman is comforted by a nun as she is handed her husband's uniform.