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Oversized strawberries on cart, 1909
Two men stand on a horse drawn cart filled with exaggerated sized strawberries. -
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. -
Oversized grapefruit on cart, 1909
Figure drives a horse drawn cart carrying an exaggerated sized grapefruit. Florida Artistic Series postcard. -
Loading oversized melons on cart, 1909
Two figures load exaggerated sized cantaloupes on to a horse drawn cart. -
Loading oversized oranges on cart, c. 1915
Two figures load exaggerated sized oranges on to a horse drawn cart. -
Racing carriages, c. 1907
Two carriages, one with a horse leading and one without, race on Ormond Beach.
Postcard addressed to Miss "Florrie" Kitching and originally addressed to Sebastian, Florida, then forwarded to Stuart. Florida Kitching was born in Sebastian in 1884. Florida moved to Stuart, following her brother, Stanley, likely around the time the postcard sent in 1907 when Florida was around 23 years old. -
Sugar Cane Grinding on a Florida Plantation, c. 1909
Man monitors a grinding machine powered by a horse.
Florida Artistic Series. Another version of this image was postmarked 1906. -
Growing sugar cane, c. 1910
Men on horseback at the edge of a sugarcane field. -
'Only' a turpentine still down south, c. 1910
Barrels and a turpentine factory.
C.T. American Art Colored. Postmarked 1938, one cent stamp. -
Gathering rosin gum for turpentine in Florida, c. 1910
Men cutting bark from trees which have buckets hanging on them.