Wednesday, July 22, 2020

Is This Post Card Related to Last Week's Post Cards?

This is a re-run of one of the post cards from last week. I am not, as the title of this post suggests, questioning if this post card is related to last week's; that is obvious. I am showing it here because I would like you to notice a couple of interesting points.
1) The words in the upper left-hand corner say, "The Kind We Raise in".
2) The flat car on which the onions are setting
3) The number on the flat car: "L. S. & M. S. 26 323"
4) The shape of the train car in front of the flat car (presuming the train is traveling to the right)
5) The ratio of sky, blue sea(?), and train track

Now look at this set of post cards:

The words in the upper left-hand corner say, "The Kind We Raise in our State".

The vegetables are sitting on a flat car.

The number of the flat car: "L. S. & M. S. 26 323".

The shape of the train car in front of the flat car is the same.

And the ratio of sky, blue sea, and train track are the same.

The only difference is that the words on the front have add "our State"

When I turn over the card, it is obvious that these three have been printed and published by the same company.

Now let us look at the post card in question:
Doesn't it look awfully familar?

Here are the only differences:

1) The printing of the words is in black ink instead of the original red.
2) It is a white border card. That means that it was printed between 1915 and 1930.
The company that printed the post cards from last week and the three above was only in business from 1912 to 1914.

That means, to me, that another post card company saw the original post cards, thought they were a great idea, and with no worry about copyright infringement (the original company is now gone), went ahead and published these as their series of post cards. This is what the back looks like. No reference to the original publisher at all:
You can see that the new publisher has decided to start their own series: "Freak Vegetables".

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