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Tall-tale Postcard: Loading Cabbage

Date: 10 30 1909
Description: A group of male laborers load a giant cabbage up a ramp and onto a train car. The side of the train says "Wisconsin and Michigan." A pile of other giant ca...
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Tall-tale Postcard: Background with Men on Ramp

Date: 1911
Description: Photographic mock-up for an Alfred Stanley Johnson photomontage postcard. Two men walk up a ramp leading into a railroad car. Both men are pushing large i...
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Tall-tale Postcard: Cutting Corn

Date: 1913
Description: Photomontage of two men with a logging crosscut saw cutting a giant ear of corn. A mound of giant corn stands beside them. There is a barn in the backgroun...
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Tall-tale Postcard: Slicing Tomatoes

Date: 1913
Description: Photomontage of a boy using a saw to cut into a giant tomato. A man stands beside the boy, watching. A group of giant tomatoes cover the foreground. The wo...
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Tall-tale Postcard: Green Corn

Date: 1913
Description: Photomontage of a man and a boy pulling the husks off of giant ears of corn. The corn fills the foreground, creeping into the house in the background. Th...
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Tall-tale Postcard: We Stopped Here

Date: 1915
Description: Photomontage of a group of travellers in a car colliding with a steamroller. The travellers have been thrown out of their car and into the air. The words...
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Tall-tale Postcard: Beating the Coal Trust

Date: 1912
Description: Photomontage of a man sawing a giant ear of corn as though it was a log. Beside him an ax is wedged in a stump-like piece of corn. A mound of giant ears ...
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Alfred Stanley Johnson, Jr.

Date: 1932
Description: Portrait of photographer Alfred Stanley Johnson, Jr., a Waupun photographer best known for his "tall-tale" or "freak" postcards.
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Landaal Brothers Hardware

Date: 03 09 1933
Description: A line of several trucks in front of the Landaal Brothers Hardware store. Landaal Brothers was likely an International Harvester dealership. One of the tru...
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Landaal Brothers Office

Date: 07 16 1937
Description: George J. Landaal sits at a large wooden desk and examines a piece of paper taken from a box in the Landaal Brothers office while Alfred Faller looks on ov...
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Farmall F-20 Tractor in Showroom

Date: 07 16 1937
Description: George Landaal, left, speaks to a customer in a showroom at Landaal Brothers, an International Harvester dealership. The men stand in front of a Farmall F-...
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Landaal Brothers IH Dealership

Date: 1942
Description: Milwaukee blockman Dale Thomas pins a "MacArthur Week" button on Charles Landaal, operator of Landaal Brothers, an International Harvester dealership. The ...
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Men Unloading Metal for Scrap Drive

Date: 1942
Description: Two men unloading scrap metal from a truck near an International Harvester dealership, possibly Landaal Brothers of Waupun. One man is standing on the truc...
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Men Unload Metal for Scrap Drive

Date: 1942
Description: Three men unload scrap metal from a truck in the yard of Landaal Brothers, an International Harvester dealership. Dealer Charles Landaal is standing at rig...
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Men Unload Metal for Scrap Drive

Date: 1942
Description: Farmers unload scrap metal from a truck in the yard of Landaal Brothers, an International Harvester dealership. Dealer Charles Landaal is standing at left....
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Jo's Corner Restaurant — Exterior

Date: 02 27 1998
Description: "This Friday our group travels to Waupun, to dine at Jo's Corner Restaurant at 435 E. Main." From left to right; Ralph Widmer, Rudy Heinecke, John Bodden, ...
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Jo's Corner Restaurant — Interior

Date: 02 27 1998
Description: "At Jo's Corner Restaurant, Cod or Clams are $4.50. For some unknown reason, our waitress, Tammy Beekman did not charge us for a sumptuous dessert, even th...
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Sigrid's Bavarian Trail — Interior

Date: 03 12 1999
Description: "While dining at Sigrid's Bavarian Trail,our waitress Carrie Pobanz, entertains us by singing 'Edelweiss.' She and her family are moving to Branson, MO, in...
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Sandy's Goose Shot — Exterior

Date: 06 18 1999
Description: "Sandy's Goose Shot is at 105 E. Main St. in Waupun, WI." From left to right; Rudy Heinecke, Ralph "Buddy" Ruecker, Ralph Widmer, John Bodden, and Shirley ...
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Sandy's Goose Shot — Interior

Date: 06 18 1999
Description: "At the Goose Shot in Waupun, Sandy Nummerdor and Bette Mocco take an intense interest in our Fish Fry pictures. We enjoy their food."

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