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Tall-tale Postcard: Boy Scouts

Date: 1912
Description: Photomontage of a group of five boy scouts around a cooking fire. The scouts watch as a giant potato, suspended over the fire, slowly roasts. They are wear...
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Tall-tale Postcard: Homeward Bound

Date: 1915
Description: Photomontage of a giant dog pulling an automobile across a landscape. The dog is running, causing the car, which is tethered to the dog's tail by a rope, ...
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Tall-tale Postcard: String Beans

Date: 1910
Description: Two girls stand in front of a large pile of giant string beans. Red text in the upper portion of the image reads, "How we do things at Ihlen, Minn."
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Tall-tale Postcard: The Milky Way

Date: 1910
Description: A convertible automobile with its top down has crashed into the back of a horse-drawn wagon carrying three enormous, full milk cans. The cans have spilled ...
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Tall-tale Postcard: Water Wagon

Date: 1915
Description: A convertible automobile with its top down has crashed into the back of a horse-drawn water wagon. One passenger has flown through the air and pierced the ...
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Tall-tale Postcard: Joy Ride

Date: 1915
Description: Photographic postcard of a man and a woman pushing their automobile through the mud because the wheels are caught in large ruts. Their feet have sunk to th...
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Ripon City Hall and Airplane

Date: 1910
Description: Tall Tale postcard of the City Hall with an airplane added on the right. Text reads: "Ripon, Wis." The City Hall is a brick building with ornate exterior d...
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Tall-tale Postcard: Some Tomatoes

Date: 08 09 1910
Description: Text on front reads: "Some Tomatoes Raised at Waupun, Wis. Wis. [sic]." On the flatbed train car: "Grand Trunk 67903." Photomontage of five giant to...

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