Photograph
Tall-tale Postcard: Homeward Bound
| Photomontage of a giant dog pulling an automobile across a landscape. The dog is running, causing the car, which is tethered to the dog's tail by a rope, to kick up dust and fly into the air. The words, "Homeward Bound," are imprinted at the bottom of the image field. There is no one sitting in the car. |
| Image ID: | 44668 |
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| Creation Date: | 1915 |
| Creator Name: | Johnson, Alfred Stanley, Jr. |
| City: | Waupun |
| County: | Fond du Lac |
| State: | Wisconsin |
| Collection Name: | Exaggerated postcards, after 1900 |
| Genre: | Photograph |
| Original Format Type: | negative, b/w copy |
| Original Format Number: | (X3)32505 |
| Original Dimensions: | 5 x 4 inches |
| This image would have been scaled down and made into a postcard. Waupun catalog no. P122. Per an email from Wystan Stevens of Ann Arbor, MI 4/16/2010: This image illustrates a visual pun. The stereotype, of course, was the mutt dog with a tin can tied to its tail -- thus cruelly tortured by nasty boys. Only, in this instance, someone has affixed not a tin can, but a "Tin Lizzie" [Model T Ford], to the pooch's caudal appendage. |
| Dogs |
| Tall tales in art |
| Automobile breakdowns |
| Automobiles |
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| Location: | Wisconsin Historical Society Archives, 4th Floor, Madison, Wisconsin |
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