Postcard
Tall-tale Postcard: Potato-The Kind We Raise in Maine
| Man standing with arms outstretched atop a giant potato, resting on a red flatbed train car. The train car says "B & A 321" on the side in white letters, representing the Bangor and Aroostook Railroad Company. The caption at the top reads, "Potato-the kind we raise in Maine." |
| Image ID: | 46409 |
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| Creation Date: | before 1943 |
| Creator Name: | American Art Post Card Co. |
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| Collection Name: | Wisconsin Folk Museum, Mount Horeb, Wisconsin, artists files, compiled 1980s-1990s |
| Genre: | Postcard |
| Original Format Type: | prints, photomechanical |
| Original Format Number: | M98-044 |
| Original Dimensions: | 5.5 x 3.5 inches |
| Another version of this card exists in which the clouds and the man and excluded. |
| Vegetables |
| Tall tales in art |
| Men |
| Railroad cars |
| Railroads |
| Potatoes |
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| Location: | Wisconsin Historical Society Archives, 4th Floor, Madison, Wisconsin |
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