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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...
Postcard

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...
Photograph

International Truck Loaded with Watermelons

Date: 10 07 1938
Description: Slightly elevated view of two men loading watermelons into the back of an International D-35 truck owned by the the Redmon Grain Company. Signs advertising...
Photograph

The Scott Fruit Company C-20 Truck

Date: 01 13 1936
Description: A man loads fruit crates onto the back of an International truck owned by the Scott Fruit Company Limited. Behind him is a ventilated refrigerator railroad...
Photograph

Elevated View of Railroad Depot

Date: 08 1902
Description: Elevated view of the railroad depot taken from the wooden shake roof of a building. On the right are railroad tracks, depot buildings, grain storage and a ...

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