Larger-Than-Life Images of Wisconsin

Alfred Stanley Johnson Jr... Tall-tale Postcard: We Never Stop (1915). From Larger-Than-Life Images of Wisconsin. "...Photographer Alfred Stanley Johnson Jr. specialized in the tall-tale postcard, extolling Wisconsin's agricultural abundance through images of oversized produce and animals. Staging his friends and family to pantomime story lines, Johnson added enlarged fruits, vegetables and animals to fit the background and included titles that attributed bountiful crops to local communities. Johnson's tall-tale postcards affirmed the American myth of abundance — a myth often at odds with reality."