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| Date: | 1911 |
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| Description: | Photographic mock-up for an Alfred Stanley Johnson photomontage postcard. Two men walk up a ramp leading into a railroad car. Both men are pushing large i... |
| Date: | 1913 |
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| Description: | Photomontage of two men with a logging crosscut saw cutting a giant ear of corn. A mound of giant corn stands beside them. There is a barn in the backgroun... |
| Date: | 1913 |
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| Description: | Photomontage of a boy using a saw to cut into a giant tomato. A man stands beside the boy, watching. A group of giant tomatoes cover the foreground. The wo... |
| Date: | 1913 |
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| Description: | Photomontage of a man and a boy pulling the husks off of giant ears of corn. The corn fills the foreground, creeping into the house in the background. Th... |
| Date: | 1915 |
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| Description: | Photomontage of a group of travellers in a car colliding with a steamroller. The travellers have been thrown out of their car and into the air. The words... |
| Date: | 1912 |
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| Description: | Photomontage of a man sawing a giant ear of corn as though it was a log. Beside him an ax is wedged in a stump-like piece of corn. A mound of giant ears ... |
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| Description: | Woodcut illustration of Paul Bunyan carrying his blue ox Babe, when Babe was a calf. |
| Date: | 1909 |
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| Description: | View of a man standing on a ladder, using an axe on a stalk of white pearl corn which is claimed to be 25 feet tall, somewhere in Georgia. A field is in th... |
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| Description: | A view of a man driving a horse-drawn wagon which is loaded with giant, six-foot-high potatoes, probably to be used as a tall-tale postcard. Caption reads:... |
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| Description: | A view of a horse-drawn wagon carrying three huge "Rattlesnake" watermelons. Each watermelon has a weight: 300 pounds, 285 pounds, and 260 pounds. The whee... |
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| Description: | A view of a man standing next to an oxen-drawn wagon carrying a giant pumpkin. Text on the photograph reads: "Just The Right Size For One Pumpkin Pie." Cap... |
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| Description: | Two men are standing on and near a pile of exaggerated, large ears of corn. One man is standing on the pile of corn and swinging a tool to remove the kerne... |
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