Today I delved into something truly…unique.
When I first saw Presidential Day by Day Card collection on the collections list I was intrigued, wondering if it literally meant “day by day” or something quasi-daily.
Well. I finally got it and boy did it not disappoint.
I don’t know any of the specifics: the who, the what, the where, the WHY.
Upon opening the box I found that there what looked to be quite literally a card for each day of each month. My first instinct was to spread those suckers out on the table in the processing room just to see how much space they took up — the table in there’s pretty big, it would have been impressive — but I didn’t. Because I am an adult. Most of the time.
Instead I flipped through the cards only to find in slight horror that every single month was missing some days. I also found that each card wasn’t just for one year, but multiple years, each recording something notable Wilson did before, during, and after he was President.
It was the best kind of weird thing to find, honestly. I’m still not entirely sure how these cards — this collection — came to be. In my head I’m picturing someone sitting down at a desk inserting 365 different cards into a typewriter trying to get the most accurate Woodrow Wilson timeline possible. I wonder how long it took. I wonder what happened to those missing cards.
Most importantly I’m still wondering how much of the processing room table those things would have covered.
