Tall tale postcards were all the rage a century ago, thanks to photographers William H. "Dad" Martin and Alfred Stanley Johnson Jr. These trick photography (or retouched) postcards brought us strange images of gigantic rabbits, fishes and vegetables. Tall tale postcards were popular up until World War I, and then they slowly faded from memory. Here are twenty of the strangest.
Giant carrot
via Wisconsin Historical Society
Great Sport Fishing, 1910
via Wisconsin Historical Society
Bringing In The Sheaves, 1908
via Wisconsin Historical Society
Kickers
via Wisconsin Historical Society
Catfish Caught in Beaver Pond
via Wisconsin Historical Society
Sliceing
via Wisconsin Historical Society
Father works
via Wisconsin Historical Society
A Gold Mine On The Farm
via Wisconsin Historical Society
Nip+Tuck with a bass, 1911
via Wisconsin Historical Society
Great sport fishing here, 1910
via Wisconsin Historical Society
The way we catch them here
(via Acidcow)
Kansas Air Ship
(via Acidcow)
The way we raise potatos in Montana
(via Acidcow)
When we go after anything we get it
(via Acidcow)
Our watermelons grow big
(via Acidcow)
A load of potatoes
(via Acidcow)
A good opening
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There are some fish around here
(via Acidcow)
Fur herring
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A late Tall Tale from 1938
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DISCUSSION
Please don't reduce the term photoshop (which shouldn't be a verb anyway) to 'shop ever again.