Wow! That Oughta Be In a Museum!Out of the OrdinaryOrdinary objects often take on special meaning when they become part of a collection.
One example is the collection of exaggerated postcards at the Finney County Historical Society Museum. When a swarm of grasshoppers descended on Garden City in 1935, local photographer Frank "Pop" Conard had a vision. Through trick photography he made a montage of humans with giant insects and printed the image on postcards. They sold like hotcakes. Conard continued to print exaggerated postcards in a variety of scenes until his retirement in 1963. Shortly afterwards his camera, photographs, and many postcards--both normal and exaggerated--entered the museum's collections. The museum has continued to add postcards to its collection as they become available. Pictured above, Curator WenDee LaPlant with exaggerated postcards in the Finney County Historical Society's collections.
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