Among the Sky-Scrapers, Morrill, Kan.

Attributed to the Nebraska photographer C. E. Yocam, this real photo postcard captures the commercial heart of early twentieth century Morrill, Kansas. The caption, Among the Sky-Scrapers, reveals the card as a wry piece of regional humor, a running gag Yocam applied to the unassuming architecture of prairie towns. On the evidence of identical titling conventions and period paper stock, this Kansas example extends the known geographic range of the photographer's series south of the state line, documenting a joke carried across borders.