The Art & Humor of Stanley Johnson of Waupun, Wisconsin
When all else fails, Johnson's characters resort to brute force to move their oversized crops
| Grapes 1909 |
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This card is from the earliest batch of October 1909. It
was also produced as an RPPC
as part of the
test market that preceded marketing nationally.
This High resolution detail of the rope shows that it is
hand drawn on the image as part of the finishing process.
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| Loading Cabbage (1909) |
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| These men are putting all their muscle into forcing the cabbage into the box car. The man in the bowler hat is a character in several of Johnson's cards. In all cases, his role is to stand around and watch everyone else do the work. | |||
| Citron (1911) |
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| The man in the bowler hat appears in this scene with his hands in his pocket as usual. The boy and man rolling the melon also appears in Musk Melon. | |||
| Cellery (sic) (1910) |
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| Hard Work (1912) |
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| Sauerkraut (1913) |
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| Peanut Crop (1913) |
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| Peanut Crop demonstrates an innovative way to manually move a large object. In this scene, the background and foreground peanuts are not on the same scale as the much larger peanut being carried. | |||
| A Tight Squeeze (1913) |
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| In a Tight Squeeze, the various corn cobs are in good scale to each other. The men using poles as pry bars look a little bit "dressed up" for the task they are performing. | |||
| Dill Pickles (1913) |
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| Rolling Them In (1916) |
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| This scene took some planning. The man on the right is lifting the cucumber with a pry bar while the other man inserts a small log to roll it on. |
