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Tall-tale Postcard: Some Tomatoes
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Text on front reads: "Some Tomatoes Raised at Waupun, Wis. Wis. [sic]." On the flatbed train car: "Grand Trunk 67903." Photomontage of five giant tomatoes on a flatbed train car. Buildings and trees are in the background.
August 9, 1910
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