improbable story mailing-card were all the fury a century ago , thanks to photographer William H. “ Dad ” Martin and Alfred Stanley Johnson Jr. These trick photography ( or retouched ) post card brought us strange image of gigantic coney , fishes and veggie . Tall tale post card were popular up until World War I , and then they lento faded from remembering . Here are twenty of the strange .
Giant carrot
viaWisconsin Historical Society
Great Sport Fishing, 1910
Bringing In The Sheaves, 1908
Kickers
Catfish Caught in Beaver Pond
Sliceing
Father works
A Gold Mine On The Farm
Nip+Tuck with a bass, 1911
Great sport fishing here, 1910
The way we catch them here
( viaAcidcow )
Kansas Air Ship
The way we raise potatos in Montana
When we go after anything we get it
Our watermelons grow big
A load of potatoes
A good opening
There are some fish around here
Fur herring
A late Tall Tale from 1938
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