How We Do Things at Ainsworth (Part 2)

From the steamer trunk.


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Images courtesy of E.H.



Another little note from Herman Harms to his friend, Minnie Rossow. Like the other tall-tale postcard, this one is postmarked March 1912.

As you probably know without my telling you, that is not the Ainsworth railroad depot. It is probably a depot somewhere in Wisconsin, perhaps in Waupun.

The photographer, Alfred Stanley Johnson, Jr., produced a lot of these tall-tale photographs. Here is a rare view of how he did it, and here, a collection of his postcards.

Also, a few other practitioners of the art.