Picture-Perfect Fish Stories: Homemaking through American Tall Tale Photographic Postcards

Photographic postcards featuring farmer culture on the American Great Plains hold a tangled relationship to concept of home. As both personal and tactile keepsakes be taken home after travel souvenirs directed loved ones, postcard bridges spaces home, travel, migration. Furthermore, are significant vehicles in storytelling community building. In early twentieth century, peculiar type photographic became popular Midwest regions depicting farmers with outrageously oversized crops livestock. This article explores by William H. Martin (1865–1940) that equivocally glorify white their presumed economic productivity. It posits through an elaborate act photomontage, these cards demonstrate boundaries convey ‘homeland’ as ambiguous landscape.