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Posted: 16 Mar 2016

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A 1909 real photo tall-tale postcard by William H. Martin.

For a similar postcard with an automobile and oversized apples, see Apples–How We Do Things at Fearnot, Pa.:

Apples–How We Do Things at Fearnot, Pa.

Smiley Derleth, Stan Askew have particularly liked this photo

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 Stan Askew
Stan Askew club
fantastic creations !!!
8 years ago.
Alan Mays club has replied to Stan Askew club
Thanks, Stan!
8 years ago.
 wintorbos
wintorbos club
We don't see these quite as often in Canada: the U.S. seems to have done a lot more of the exaggeration cards and paper moons and so forth.
8 years ago.
 wintorbos
wintorbos club
Have you read Luc Sante's book "Folk Photography"? It has a lot of great examples of this type of card, together with a very good introductory essay. He's a tremendous writer who just happens to have become an avid real photo postcard collector at some point.
8 years ago.
Alan Mays club has replied to wintorbos club
Yes, I do have a copy of it but--doggonit!--I haven't figured out where it's at so I can re-read the introductory essay you mentioned. Have you seen Roger L. Welsch, Tall-Tale Postcards: A Pictorial History (1976) or Cynthia Elyce Rubin and Morgan Williams, Larger Than Life: The American Tall-Tale Postcard, 1905-1915 (1990)? Both are worth tracking down if you have the slightest interest in these kinds of cards.

And although Clément Chéroux and Ute Eskildsen, The Stamp of Fantasy: The Visual Inventiveness of Photographic Postcards (2007) only has one or two exaggeration cards, it's worth seeking out for all the other amazing stuff in it.
8 years ago.

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