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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: Plenty Potatoes

Date: 1912
Description: 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 ...
Photograph

Landaal Brothers IH Dealership

Date: 1942
Description: Milwaukee blockman Dale Thomas pins a "MacArthur Week" button on Charles Landaal, operator of Landaal Brothers, an International Harvester dealership. The ...
Photograph

Loading Truck at Landall Brothers Dealership

Date: 03 09 1933
Description: Men loading a cream separator and gas pumps into the back of an International Red Baby truck in front of the Landall Brothers hardware store and farm equip...
Photograph

Landaal Brothers Hardware

Date: 03 09 1933
Description: A line of several trucks in front of the Landaal Brothers Hardware store. Landaal Brothers was likely an International Harvester dealership. One of the tru...
Photograph

Farmall F-20 Tractor in Showroom

Date: 07 16 1937
Description: George Landaal, left, speaks to a customer in a showroom at Landaal Brothers, an International Harvester dealership. The men stand in front of a Farmall F-...
Photograph

Tall-tale Postcard: Carrots

Date: 1912
Description: Photomontage of three women and a little girl pulling up a giant carrot root. Several other giant carrots, some of which have been pulled out of the ground...
Photograph

Landaal Bros. Co. Storefront

Date: 1943
Description: View from across street of the Landaal Brothers Company storefront. Landaal Brothers was an International Harvester dealership managed by Alfred Galler.
Print

Althouse, Wheeler & Co. Letterhead

Date: 
Description: Letterhead of the Althouse, Wheeler & Company of Waupun, Wisconsin, manufacturers of the Althouse & Raymond Wind Mill and the Waupun Patent Premium Pump. I...
Print

Althouse, Wheeler & Co. Letterhead

Date: 
Description: Letterhead of the Althouse, Wheeler & Company of Waupun, Wisconsin, manufacturer of vaneless wind mills, pumps, grinding mills, and water tanks, with illus...
Photograph

Men Planning for World War II Scrap Drive

Date: 1942
Description: International Harvester dealer Charles Landaal signs a pledge to help collect scrap as part of Governor Julius P. Heil's "MacArthur Week" scrap drive. Milw...
Photograph

Tall-tale Postcard: Cutting Corn

Date: 1913
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...
Photograph

Tall-tale Postcard: Beating the Coal Trust

Date: 1912
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 ...
Property Record

620 W BROWN ST (IN FRONT OF WAUPUN MEMORIAL HOSPITAL)

Community: Waupun
County: Fond du Lac
Historic Name: Who Sows Believes in God
Reference Number: 61649
Photograph

Tall-tale Postcard: Will It Go In (with Vegetables)

Date: 1911
Description: Photomontage of two men standing over an open cellar door, attempting to push a giant root vegetable into it. Two women with brooms are holding a baby by t...
Photograph

Tall-tale Postcard: Slicing Tomatoes

Date: 1913
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...
Photograph

Tall-tale Postcard: Green Corn

Date: 1913
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...
Property Record

W10971 STATE HIGHWAY 49

Community: Waupun
County: Fond du Lac
Historic Name: 
Reference Number: 229634
National or State Registers Record

Generally bounded by E Franklin St to the N, Carrington St to the E, E Jefferson St to the S, and Forest St to the W

Community: Waupun
County: DodgeFond du Lac
Historic Name: Waupun Commercial Historic District
Reference Number: 100004468
Historical Essay

Tall-Tale Postcards - Image Gallery Essay

Larger Than Life Images of Animals and Produce
Learn about the tall-tale postcard industry and the career of photographer Alfred Stanley Johnson, Jr.

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