Postcard WA: Mammoth Washington Apples, Exaggerated Size, c1910, Washington For Sale

Description: A humorous exaggeration postcard titled \"Mammoth Washington Apples,\" depicting oversized red and green apples dwarfing two workers who are loading them onto a flatcar railroad platform using hand trucks. The composite image, a popular novelty style of the era, superimposes giant apple photographs onto a real scene of a train loading dock, with a barn visible in the background. This type of \"tall tale\" agricultural booster card was widely produced to humorously promote the bounty of Washington State\'s apple harvests.

Publisher: Portland Post Card Co., Seattle, WA and Portland, OR. No. 544. Copyright 1907.

Posted: Postmarked Florence, Oregon, November 21, 1910. Sent by \"Ed\" to Miss Leda Hentoson, Moulton, Oregon. The sender writes from Florence, Oregon, noting he has been ill in bed under a doctor\'s care for two weeks but is feeling better, that they are getting some \"wonderful\" rain and snow, and asks his niece to write and share news as he gets \"awful lonesome sometimes\" when he hasn\'t heard from there for a long time.