Larger Than Life: The American Tall Tale Postcard 1905-1915, by Cynthia Elyce Rubin
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Larger Than Life: The American Tall Tale Postcard 1905-1915, by Cynthia Elyce Rubin and Morgan William. 1990 hardcover. 132 pages, very nice condition.
Offers a brief history of the "exaggerated" picture postcard, and how it captured many facets of life in turn-of-the-century small-town America. Tall-tale postcards emerged around the turn of the 20th century, when postcards came to function as surrogates for travel. People soon realized that postcards could be used to create or sustain a certain utopian myth about a town or region, and crafty photographers began to physically manipulate their photographs.