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Tall-tale Postcard: Our Barn is Full

Date:	1912
Description:	Several women and a man are outside of a barn, which is overflowing with giant onions, corn, and potatoes. A ladder is placed against the large stack of on...

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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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