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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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Men Sawing Pine Tree

Date: 1913
Description: Two lumberjacks pose with a saw which they're using to fell a pine tree.
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Students Making Fly Trap

Date: 1913
Description: Two boys construct fly traps in a Morton Grove School classroom.
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Building the Pulpit — Part 1

Date: 1913
Description: An action shot of two sawyers cutting a hollow hemlock log using a 2-person crosscut saw. They are sawing halfway through the log, to create an angle which...

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