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Tall-tale Postcard: One of the Squash

Date: 1910
Description: Three smiling children wearing white clothing are sitting atop a gigantic, dark squash. Text in top left corner reads: "Beaver Dam, Wis." Fence lines back ...
Postcard

Tall-tale Postcard: Onions

Date: 10 30 1909
Description: An elderly, bearded man hauls a giant onion using a dolly. The man is wearing a black hat and white work gloves. The background shows the side of a barn....
Postcard

Tall-tale Postcard: Sugar Beets

Date: 10 30 1909
Description: A man on a large horse-drawn cart hauls a group of giant sugar beets. The two horses are stepping onto a dirt road. An inscription in the upper left corner...
Postcard

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: Loading Cabbage

Date: 10 30 1909
Description: A group of male laborers load a giant cabbage up a ramp and onto a train car. The side of the train says "Wisconsin and Michigan." A pile of other giant ca...
Postcard

Tall-tale Postcard: Giant Cucumber

Date: 1934
Description: Photomontage of a giant cucumber on a flatbed railway car. The railroad is right on the side of a lake. Red text in the upper left corner reads, "The kind ...
Postcard

Tall-tale Postcard: Potato-The Kind We Raise in Maine

Date: 1943
Description: Man standing with arms outstretched atop a giant potato, resting on a red flatbed train car. The train car says "B & A 321" on the side in white letters, ...
Postcard

Tall-tale Postcard: Giant Lettuce/Cabbage

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Description: Photomontage of two giant heads of lettuce/cabbage resting on a flatbed railroad car. The side of the car is imprinted with, "L.S. & M.S. 26 D23," showing...
Poster

Genesis II Film Poster

Date: 1969
Description: Concert for the second installment of the Genesis film series, titled, "Cinematic Explorations". Poster features a naked woman riding a carrot over a puffy...
Poster

Gay Dance

Date: 1972
Description: Poster promoting a gay dance to be held at the Memorial Union's Old Madison Room. Donation fee of .50 requested. Additional graffitti reads "No Union Scabs...
Book or Pamphlet

John A. Salzer Seed Co. Catalog

Date: 1919
Description: Back cover of the 1919 John A. Salzer Seed Co. catalog featuring depictions of carrots, cabbage and a honeydew melon. The back cover also bears the slogan ...
Print

Victory Garden Seed Order Form

Date: 1943
Description: Front side of order blank for Aunt Jenny's Garden for Victory seeds featuring a drawing of a woman and several vegetables.
Postcard

Tall-tale Postcard: String Beans

Date: 1910
Description: Two girls stand in front of a large pile of giant string beans. Red text in the upper portion of the image reads, "How we do things at Ihlen, Minn."
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Acme Insecticides Letterhead

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Description: Letterhead of the Acme White Lead & Color Works of Detroit, Michigan, which as part of its business produced insecticides for farm and home garden applicat...
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Chas. Beard Letterhead

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Description: Letterhead of Chas. (Charles) Beard, a grower of fancy rural New York seed potatoes from Elcho, Wisconsin, with a duotone image of a potato, and "One of My...
Print

Oconomowoc Canning Company Letterhead

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Description: Letterhead of the Oconomowoc Canning Company, with a can of Teenie Weenie Wisconsin peas featuring a label with Teenie Weenie figures emptying pods of peas...
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Larsen's Freshlike Corn, Label

Date: 01 25 1944
Description: Label submitted to the State of Wisconsin for trademark registration. Label for canned food from the Larsen Company. Features a can of corn, with fresh ear...

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