Collections Worth Building: Tall Tale Postcards

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American Tall-Tale postcards emerged around the turn of the 20th century, when postcards came to function as surrogates for travel. Nowhere did these modified images become more prevalent than in rural communities that hoped to forge an identity as places of agricultural abundance to encourage settlement and growth. [Wisconsin Historical Society]

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  1. Absolutely fantastic!!!

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  2. Reblogged this on calmyourbeans.

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