"Mit dem Lasso müssen den Weizen sie fangen,
Sonst können sie keine Ernte erlangen.
Woher bekam er diese Ähren?
Kalkstickstoff tat sie ihm bescheren."
Werbepostkarte, vermutlich Anfang der 1950er-Jahre.
Wie am linken unteren Rand erkennbar handelt es sich um eine Reproduktion, wobei das Urheberrecht der ursprünglichen Ansichtskarte überdruckt wurde.
Es handelt sich im Original um die Ansichtskarte "The way we Harvest Wheat", die der Fotograf William "Dad" Martin 1909 veröffentlicht hatte. Alex Boese schreibt in seinem Buch "The Museum of Hoaxes", New York 2002, S. 102-103:
"Around the turn of the century a new form of communication was born: the picture postcard. Postcards had been around since 1869, but it was not until 1894 that pictures began to be printed on them. The cards were an immediate success. Their popularity inspired a few photographers to experiment with ways to add more humor to them, and soon they had translated the idiom of the tall tale into visual form, creating so-called "freak" postcards. Customers loved them. Oversized crops and animals were a constant theme of the freak postcards, especially in the Midwest farming communities, where settlers got a kick out of sending cards to the relatives back east showing corn as big trees and cabbages larger than barns. The fact that the Midwest was experiencing years of drought and pestilence made the joke all that much funnier. The era of the tall-tale postcard experienced its peak from 1905 to 1915. But cards of this kind are still being created and sent today, particularly in the Midwest."
In Europa sind Ansichtskarten dieses Genres relativ selten.
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