Harvesting Wheat in Iowa, 1909, Gelatin silver print, Image: x 14 cm (3 5/16 x 5 1/2 in.), Photographs, William H. Martin

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Harvesting Wheat in Iowa, 1909, Gelatin silver print, Image: x 14 cm (3 5/16 x 5 1/2 in.), Photographs, William H. Martin (American, 1865–1940), The tall-tale postcard was a uniquely American genre that flourished in the Midwest between about 1908 and 1915. The earliest master of the genre was William H. “Dad” Martin, a studio photographer in Kansas who established a successful sideline crafting photomontages of outlandish agricultural abundance

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Size: 5712px × 3653px
Photo credit: © Artokoloro / Alamy / Afripics
License: Licensed
Model Released: No

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