Alan Mays' photos with the keyword: harvesting

Mouse over the image above for close-up view of the fruits and vegetables that surround the pulpit in this Harvest Home church display. If "Day: 40" on the hymn board on the wall refers to the fortieth week of the year, then it's likely that this church was decorated like this for a Harvest Home service sometime in late September or early October.

A church Harvest Home display with a variety of fruits, vegetables, flowers, and cornstalks. The man in the picture is probably the pastor of the church.

A real photo tall-tale postcard.

"How we do things at Ephrata, Pa." Wisconsin photographer Alfred Stanley Johnson, Jr., reused these same onions in another tall-tale postcard that he entitled Onions (below).

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),

A real photo postcard. "Bringing in the sheaves. A common scene on a Kans. farm. Copyrighted photograph, 1908, W. H. Martin."