Something's Fishy

See also the back of this advertising trade card: Fishing for Your Business, William Stuart, Canton, Ohio (Back) (below). Excerpt from the text on the back of the card : "We are out fishing for your fall trade, and the bait we are offering is prices lower than any other firm in Canton, and on the easy payment plan."

See also the front of this advertising trade card: Fishing for Your Business, William Stuart, Canton, Ohio (below). -------- $20 worth of furniture, carpets, stoves, or anything in the house furnishing line, for $2.00 cash and $1.00 per week, or $4.00 per month at Stuart's Great Bargain House, No. 57 E. Tuscarawas Street. We are out fishing for your fall trade, and the bait we are offering is prices lower than any other firm in Canton, and on the easy payment plan. Our stock of goods consists of furniture, carpets, stoves, ranges, heaters, baby buggies, lace curtains, window shades, gold and silver watches for ladies and gentlemen. Remember, we do the largest business in Canton, and sell you cheaper than any of our competitors, and give you liberal terms on any amount you wish to purchase. Remember the place. Come try us. Stuart's, 57 E. Tuscarawas St., Canton, O. (American Block.)

"Walter S. Welton, dealer in fine boots & shoes, 338 Chapel St., New Haven, Conn. Copyrighted by John Gibson, 1881." A colorful and amusing Victorian-era advertising trade card.

A Vintage Photos Theme Park photo for the theme of tattered & torn (or otherwise damaged) . "For[idian] Ho[tel]. Floridian fishing dock, Miami Beach. Caught on yacht Skip Jack, Capt. E. P. Le May." A tattered, torn, creased, and taped photo of two fishermen posing with a sailfish on the dock of the Floridian Hotel in Miami Beach, Florida.

Bonheur d'Avril Confident des coeurs amoureux Ce beau poisson porte mes voeux. Rough translation from Google: Happiness of April Confident of loving hearts This beautiful fish carries my wishes.

Real photo postcard, postmarked Juneau, Wisconsin, Sept. 21, 1912.

A fish on a vintage real photo postcard for the ABC Group (4/17/2017). This is one of the amusing pre-digital photomontages composed by William H. Martin (1865-1940) in the early twentieth century. For more info and additional examples of Martin's work, see my brief discussion about Havesting a Profitable Crop of Onions in Iowa .

Photomontage in a tall-tale or exaggeration photo for the theme of photographic tricks and amusements during the free-for-all week of Wild Card Month in the Vintage Photos Theme Park. A real photo postcard created by William H. Martin in 1909.

Yikes!

"They're biting well here. Caught at Camp Caledon, Pa."

A French April Fools' Day real photo postcard. As Wikipedia's April Fools' Day article explains, "In Italy, France, and Belgium, children and adults traditionally tack paper fishes on each other's back as a trick and shout 'April fish!' in their local languages ( pesce d'aprile! , poisson d'avril! , and aprilvis! in Italian, French, and Dutch, respectively). Such fish feature prominently on many French late 19th to early 20th century April Fools' Day postcards."

An Ektachrome slide dated July 1964.