Gallery: Early 1900s Postcards Show Off Primitive 'Photoshopping' Skills
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*'Bringing in the Sheaves., A Common Scene On An Okla Farm.' Kansas City, Missouri. William H. Martin. 1908.*
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*'Early Morning in the Poultry Yard' Photo Art Shop, 1909.*
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*'Lassoing A Rabbit' William H. Martin.*
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*'Some Good Size Murphys' Photo Art Shop, 1909.*
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*Our Corn' Alfred Stanley Johnson Jr.*
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*'Carving Watermelons in Kansas' George B. Cornish Arkansas City, Kansas, 1907.*
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*'A Gold Mine On The Farm.' As with most of Erickson's work, this postcard is credited to his studio, the "Photo Art Shop." Oscar Erickson. 1911.*
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*'Kansas Air Ship.' Photomontage of a giant grasshopper lifting an anchored basket with a baby girl inside. M.W. Bailey. 1913.*
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*'Fertile Lands With Potato.' Giant, oddly-shaped potato rests on a flatbed railroad car. Los Angeles, California. Newman Postcard Company. Before 1910.*
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*'Melon Party (Without Melons).' Four girls hold an object that resembles a giant slice of watermelon for a photographic mock-up for a photomontage postcard entitled 'Melon Party.' Waupun, Wisconsin. Alfred Stanley Johnson Jr. 1911.*
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*'Caught With The Goods.' Small person driving horse and cart confronted by giant chicken. Waupun, Wisconsin. Alfred Stanley Johnson Jr. 1913.*
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*'The Bass I Caught' William H. Martin.*
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*'Winter Scene At Little Rib.' Photomontage. Artist unknown. Before 1911.*
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*'Cat Fish Caught in Beaver Pond - Beaver Dam, Wis.' Men inspect a giant catfish being hauled on a flatbed horse-drawn cart. Waupun, Wisconsin. Alfred Stanley Johnson Jr. October 30, 1909.*
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