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Tall-tale Postcard: One of the Squash

Date: 1910
Description: Three smiling children wearing white clothing are sitting atop a gigantic, dark squash. Text in top left corner reads: "Beaver Dam, Wis." Fence lines back ...
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Tall-tale Postcard: The Buck Fever

Date: 1910
Description: Two men are hunting with rifles in the Wisconsin woods. It is winter; there is snow on the ground. Instead of shooting a deer, one hunter shoots a giant ...
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Tall-tale Postcard: Rabbits

Date: 1910
Description: Two hunters stand around a pile of giant rabbits that they have killed in a Wisconsin forest. It is winter; there is snow on the ground. One of the hunters...
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Tall-tale Postcard: A Good Bag

Date: 1910
Description: Two hunters, rifles in hand, transport the giant rabbits they have killed homeward. They have tied the rabbits to a wooden pole, which they rested between...
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Tall-tale Postcard: Pickerel

Date: 1910
Description: Two men stand staring at a giant pickerel fish laying on a long, wooden horse-drawn sled. The scene takes place in an industrial district, including a lumb...
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Tall-tale Postcard: Big Pike

Date: 1910
Description: A group of working class men stand staring at a giant pike fish resting on a long, wooden horse-drawn sled. The scene takes place in an industrial district...
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Tall-tale Postcard: Landing a Pike, Attica, Wis.

Date: 1910
Description: A group of men on a lakeshore grapple with a giant pike. Two men pull on a rope hooked to the pike while two more stand ready with harpoon-like sticks. Ano...
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Tall-tale Postcard: Fertile Lands with Potato

Date: 1910
Description: A giant, oddly-shaped potato rests on a flatbed railroad car. A horse-drawn carriage with a driver is visible behind the train. White bags filled with pota...
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Tall-tale Postcard: Great Sport Fishing

Date: 1910
Description: Photomontage of three fishermen in a rowboat, seen from behind, trying to reel in giant fish. A shadowy forest is visible on the opposite side of the river...
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Deering Grain Binder

Date: 1910
Description: A farmer operates a Deering grain binder driven by four horses.
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Child with Hay Tedder

Date: 1910
Description: A young boy sits on a horse-drawn Champion hay tedder in a field.
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Champion Machine

Date: 1910
Description: A farmer uses a horse-drawn Champion mower in field.
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Champion Machine

Date: 1910
Description: A man drives two horses uphill, pulling a Champion sickle-bar mower.
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Man and Horses

Date: 1910
Description: A man sits on a horse-drawn mower.
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Deering Grain Binder

Date: 1910
Description: Men and children gather around a Deering grain binder pulled by two horses.
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Champion Binder

Date: 1910
Description: A man operates a horse-drawn Champion grain binder.
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Walking Cultivator

Date: 1910
Description: Farmer using a horse-drawn walking cultivator in field.
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Cultivating a Field

Date: 1910
Description: Farmer using a one-horse walking cultivator to work in a field.
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Combination Cultivator

Date: 1910
Description: Farmer using a walking combination cultivator in a field.
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Field Workers

Date: 1910
Description: A group of workers stack corn shocks in a field while a small child and dog stand in the foreground. A horse-drawn corn binder is in the background.

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