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Oversized pumpkins on cart, 1908

Three men pose next to exaggerated sized pumpkins on a horse drawn cart.

Copyright statement in the bottom right corner reads "Copyrighted Photograph 1908 by W. H. Martin, Ottawa, Kan." Photographer William H. "Dad" Martin used photomontage and trick photography to make exaggerated images of fruits and vegetables and started selling them as postcards, thus establishing the exaggeration postcard genre in 1908. His postcards became popular and were often plagiarized. Martin ended up selling the company in 1912 to Williams S. Fallis and William H. Jones who renamed it the North American Post Card Company.

Tags Carts & wagons, Horses, Pumpkins

Fort Pierce School, 1908

Large group of children standing in front of a building. Teachers on porch. Oct 1908. Label: "Fort Pierce School, Oct. 1908, Enrollment 253"

Tags Children, Gazebos, Schools, Teachers

Four men and a shark, 1908

Several men standing on the dock around a dead shark. Low quality print.

Tags Fish, Florida-Fort Pierce

Edna Gloeckler on basketball team, 1908

Photograph of the girls’ basketball team at Francis W. Parker High School in Chicago. Edna Gloeckler identified as the third girl in front.

Gloeckler married Leon E. Ashley in 1913 and the couple moved to Stuart by the mid-1920s. Edna and Leon Ashley were the parents of twins, James and John Ashley and Charles Richard "Dick" Ashley (of the Taylor-Ashley Real Estate and Insurance business in Stuart).

Tags Basketball teams, Basketball uniforms, Women athletes