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Posted: 03 Oct 2016

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Havesting a Profitable Crop of Onions in Iowa

Havesting a Profitable Crop of Onions in Iowa
A harvest photo for the Vintage Photos Theme Park.

Kansas photographer and postcard publisher William H. Martin (1865-1940) used pre-digital photomontage techniques to create amusing real photo postcards like this one that purported to show farmers with giant fruits, vegetable, and grains.

Other Martin postcards with harvest scenes include Bringing in the Sheaves, Harvesting Wheat in Missouri, and Pumpkins Grown in Kansas Soil Are Profitable (see below).

Corn and other crops also appear in other Martin cards, such as The Land of Big Corn, Good Corn Makes Good Hogs, Our County Fair Contest on Nebraska Corn, and Prosperity (see below),

Bringing in the Sheaves Harvesting Wheat in Missouri Pumpkins Grown in Kansas Soil Are Profitable The Land of Big Corn Good Corn Makes Good Hogs Our County Fair Contest on Nebraska Corn Prosperity

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Comments
 Alan Mays
Alan Mays club
Thanks, Lisa, Babs, and David! Martin really knew how to compose these montages!
8 years ago.
 RicksPics
RicksPics club
And I only think of corn and hogs when I think of Iowa :).
8 years ago.

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