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Posted: 17 Oct 2017

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Truckload of Copper River Salmon, Cordova, Alaska, 1937

Truckload of Copper River Salmon, Cordova, Alaska, 1937
Caption at bottom (difficult to see): "179. Copper River Salmon, Cordova, Alaska. Photocraft."

Sign on building: "Northern Meat [Market]."

Addressed on the other side to Bob Bern, Seward, Alaska, and postmarked Cordova, Alaska, Sep. 30, 1937.

Message: "Dear Bob, How is everybody in Seward? Cordova ain't so bad, but I haven't met any girls yet. We are about a half a mile from town so I go every day. Write some time and let me know how you are. Vic Hughes, c/o Wright & Stock, Cordova, Alaska."

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 Deborah Lundbech
Deborah Lundbech club
Fun card, Alan. I bet this really fooled some people back then!
Your "Tall Tale and Exaggeration" collection is really impressive. How long have you been collecting these? I don't remember seeing many examples in Vermont.
I like the way that so many of the people are portrayed with such matter of fact expressions next to whatever enormous object or animal that's being featured on the postcard. It reminds me of how comedians make everything funnier with a deadpan delivery.
7 years ago.
Alan Mays club has replied to Deborah Lundbech club
Thanks, Deborah! I've been collecting these for quite a number of years now. I find it interesting to consider the photographers and publishers who have created them. William H. Martin was among the earliest and most successful, and Alfred Stanley Johnson, Jr. was prolific, too. Edward H. Mitchell was known for his brightly colored cards of fruits and vegetables on railroad cars. I've only posted one by Frank D. Conard, who featured oversized grasshoppers in many of his cards.

In case you're interested, there are two good books on exaggeration postcards--see Tall-tale Postcards: A Pictorial History (1976), by Roger L. Welsch, and Larger Than Life: The American Tall Tale Postcard, 1905-1915 (1990), by Cynthia Elyce Rubin and Morgan Williams.
7 years ago.

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