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Throwback Thursday: Exaggeration Postcards

greg wagner July 31, 2014 Leave a comment

Fishing and hunting yarns and photos have always been part of Nebraska’s great outdoor scene. Beginning in the early 1900s and for decades thereafter, Nebraska postcards depicted altered, exaggerated images of game, fish and agriculture. These were done to promote the unique aspects of a place or product as well as to document local history. They were also used to lure folks to the Cornhusker State to hunt, fish or visit. Considered western-style humor, these exaggeration postcards were extremely popular on the Great Plains.

Here are some of the vintage exaggeration postcards I came across to share with you on this Throwback Thursday. Which one is your favorite?

Image Source: Nebraska State Historical Society.
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Photo Source: Nebraska State Historical Society.
Image Source: Nebraska State Historical Society.
Photo Source: Nebraska State Historical Society.
Image Source: Nebraska State Historical Society.

Several years ago at a NE Game and Parks event, my own superimposed Nebraska exaggeration postcards were created. What do you think of them?

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About greg wagner

A native of Gretna, NE, a graduate of Gretna High School and Bellevue University, Greg Wagner currently serves as the Communications and Marketing Specialist and Manager for the Nebraska Game and Parks Commission's Service Center in Omaha. On a weekly basis, Wagner can be heard on a number of radio stations, seen on local television in Omaha, and on social media channels, creatively conveying natural resource conservation messages as well as promoting outdoor activities and destinations in Nebraska. Wagner, whose career at Game and Parks began in 1979, walks, talks, lives, breathes and blogs about Nebraska’s outdoors. He grew up in rural Gretna, building forts in the woods, hunting, fishing, collecting leaves, and generally thriving on constant outdoor activity. One of the primary goals of his blog is to get people, especially young ones, to have fun and spend time outside!

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