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Tall-tale Postcard: Plenty Potatoes
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Two men, one wearing overalls and one wearing suspenders, stand on top of a mound of giant potatoes. A large cart drawn by two horses carries the potatoes and men. An inscription on the upper portion of the postcard reads, "The kind we raise at Abbotsford, Wis."
1912
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