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Caption |
Advertising card promoting 52 Novelty Freak postcards. |
Date |
1913 |
Place |
Waupun, Wisconsin |
Title |
Advertising card promoting 52 Novelty Freak postcards. |
Description |
Advertising card promoting 52 Novelty Freak postcards. We can date this because it was at the end of 1911 that Johnson had completed 52 of his exaggeration cards. However, this is on the back of a "Father Works" card which he did not copyright until 1913. Perhaps he printed it before he copyrighted it. "FW" has not copyright information on it, so that may be the case. Or, he may have is discontinued some of his earlier less popular designs and was not including them in the 52. Considering the rarity of some of the earliest ones, that may be the case. The end of 1913 also was a breaking point in Johnson's production. In 1914, the year of his father's death, he copyrighted no new titles and did not start producing new designs until 1915. Advertising Novelty Freak Post Cards On the frontside of the advertising card is the Johnson image Father Works. Collection of Morgan Williams |
Photographer |
Johnson, Stanley |
Collection |
Postcards - A. S. Johnson Exaggeration |
Catalog Number |
1070.1913.52cards |
Object Name |
Postcard |
Subjects |
Exaggeration Postcards |
Imagefile |
012\1070191152cards.JPG |
Accession number |
2017.08.03 |
Updated |
2024-04-05 |
Orig/copy |
Original |