30198.
Wild Men of Borneo. Waino & Plutano. Hiram and Barney Davis.
Oddities, Circus, Fairs, Clowns, Ventriloquists, Puppets, Automatons-CDVs
30199.
Wild Men of Borneo. Waino & Plutano. Weight 45 pounds. Age, about 50. Hiram and Barney Davis.
30200.
Wild Men of Borneo. Waino & Plutano. Weight 45 pounds. Age, about 50. Hiram and Barney Davis.
30205.
John Babtista dos Santos of Faro, Portugal. His condition is described as Ischiopagus dipygus. See NYS Journal of Medicine, Nov. 1979, p. 1933 in Early Medical Photography in America by Stanley Burns.
30206.
Mlle. Zana, the only Bearded Russian Lady, 19 Years of Age.
30207.
Faintly written on verso Miss Halleran? American Bearded Lady age 24.
30208.
Amanda King, Bearded Lady.
30209.
Madam Squires of Massachusetts. (D)
30210.
Madam Squires of Massachusetts. 40 Years of Age. (D)
30211.
Madam Squires of Massachusetts. 30 Years of Age. (D)
30212.
Mrs. A. Myers.
30213.
Mr. & Mrs. A. Myers.
30214.
Mr. & Mrs. A. Myers.
30215.
Madame DeVere, Bearded Lady.
30216.
Madame DeVere, Bearded Lady.
30217.
Madame DeVere, Bearded Lady with gentleman, likely her husband.
30218.
Madame DeVere, Bearded Lady with gentleman, likely her husband.
30219.
Madame DeVere, Bearded Lady.
30220.
Miss Annie Jones, age 15.
30221.
Miss Annie Jones, age 18.
30222.
Miss Annie Jones.
30223.
Miss Annie Jones age 19.
30224.
Miss Annie Jones.
30225.
Miss Annie Jones age 18.
30226.
Miss Annie Jones.
30253.
Jacob Doorn, man with two artificial arms. The CDV is mounted on a sheet of paper along with a handwritten statement by Doorn which reads “Written by the undersigned with the help of his artificial arms produced by the firm A & B Schmeink at Amsterdam” and signed “Jacob Doorn from Nuizen near Naarden,” and dated “Amsterdam 5 October 1883.”
30259.
Chang and Eng and two of their children.
30260.
Chang and Eng, their wives, and two children.
30261.
Millie Christine.
30262.
Millie Christine.
30273.
Hannah Battersby, married to the thin man John Battersby. She was born Hannah Jane Duke. Age 20, weight 583 lbs.
30274.
Master John H. Powers, 19 years old. Weighs (553 pounds, crossed out, 601 and 633 written in), 6 feet 5 inches high. Born in Franklin County, Kentucky. Is the largest boy of his age in America. 1877.
30301.
Anna Swan, The “Nova Scotia Giant Girl,” 17 years old! weighs 379 pounds! 8 feet 1 inch high and still growing-the tallest girl ever known. Exhibiting at Barnum’s Museum, New York.
30302.
Mrs. Anna Bates, 8 feet tall. Anna Swan, the “Nova Scotia Giant Girl,” who married Captain M.V. Bates.
Anna Haining Bates (née Swan; August 6, 1846 – August 5, 1888), was a Canadian woman famed for her great stature of 7 feet 11 inches. Her parents were of average height and were Scottish immigrants.
Anna Swan was born at Mill Brook, New Annan, Nova Scotia. At birth she weighed 16 pounds. She was the third of 13 children, all of the others being around average height. From birth she grew very quickly. On her fourth birthday she was 4 feet 6 inches tall. On her 6th birthday she was measured again, and she stood 5 feet 2 inches tall, an inch or two shorter than her mother. On her 11th birthday she stood 6 feet 2 inches tall and weighed 203 pounds. By her 15th birthday Bates was 7 feet tall. She reached her full height three years later. Her feet measured 14.2 inches long.
Swan excelled at literature and music and was considered to be very intelligent. She also excelled at her studies of acting, piano and voice. She played Lady Macbeth in one play. At one time, she nearly burned to death when Barnum’s museum was destroyed by fire. The stairs were in flames and she was too large to escape through a window. She did get help and escaped safely. She normally weighed 340 pounds. When visiting a circus in Halifax with which Martin Van Buren Bates — another enormously tall person — was travelling, Swan was spotted by the promoter and hired on the spot. The giant couple became a touring sensation and eventually fell in love and, on June 17, 1871, in St Martin-in-the-Fields in London, they married.
In 1872, Bates and her husband purchased 130 acres of land and had furniture made to their specifications. Martin supervised the construction of the house. The main part of the house had fourteen-foot ceilings, while the doors were extra wide and were eight feet tall. The back part of the house was built an average size for servants and guests.
Bates conceived two children with Martin. The first was a girl born on May 19, 1872; she weighed 18 pounds and died at birth. While touring in the summer of 1878, Anna was pregnant for the second time. The boy was born on January 18, 1879, and survived only 11 hours. He was the largest newborn ever recorded, at 23 pounds 9 ounces and nearly 30 inches tall; each of his feet was six inches long. For this he was posthumously awarded a Guinness World Record.
The Bateses resumed touring with the W.W. Cole Circus in the summer of 1879, and again in the spring of 1880. Bates spent her remaining years quietly on the farm that she and her husband owned. She had joined the local Baptist Church in 1877 and attended services with her husband.
Bates died suddenly and unexpectedly of heart failure in her sleep at her home on August 5, 1888, one day before her 42nd birthday.
30303.
Col. Routh Goshen, The Arabian Giant, 29 years old; 7 feet 10 inches high; weight 508 lbs. Born in Old Jerusalem. Carte is probably signed on verso in both Arabic and English. Routh Goshen, born Arthur James Caley (1824 – February 12, 1889) was most commonly known as Colonel Routh Goshen or the Arabian Giant or the Palestine Giant.
30304.
Col. Routh Goshen, The Arabian Giant, 29 years old; 7 feet 10 inches high; weight 508 lbs. Born in Old Jerusalem. Routh Goshen, born Arthur James Caley (1824 – February 12, 1889) was most commonly known as Colonel Routh Goshen or the Arabian Giant or the Palestine Giant.
30305.
Giant Monsieur E. Bihin. Jean Antoine Joseph Bihin (1805-1873). A native of Belgium, he grew to a height of between 6’8″ to 8′ feet (reports vary). Beyond this advantage, he could act and sing, and was a skilled strong man and comedian. After achieving fame touring fairs and circuses across western Europe, he moved to the U.S. in 1840. He worked at P.T. Barnum’s museum, where he once got into a fight with Colonel Goshen. Barnum interceded by demanding they save the altercation until there were time to properly promote it and sell tickets. Bihin also worked with Colonel Nutt in a 1862 production of the play Hop o’ My Thumb.
30306.
Monsieur Joseph, Ex-officier de l’armee francaise. Ancient officer in the French Army. The most enormous Giant living. 8 feet 4 inches high. Weighing 400 pounds. Exhibiting at Barnum’s Museum, New York.
30307.
Capt. Martin Van Buren Bates.
30324.
Eli Bowen. Partial tax stamp on verso.
30325.
Master Eli Bowen now on Exhibition with Norman’s Museum. Tax stamp on verso.
30326.
Eli Bowen, The wonderful Man with feet but no legs. Also Mrs. Eli Bowen.
30327.
Eli Bowen, Wife and Child.
30328.
Eli Bowen, Wife and Child.
30329.
Eli Bowen, Wife and Child.
30330.
Written on verso “G.F. Spence Elizabethtown Ky. Chas. B. Tripp, Born in Woodstock, Ontario. Age 25 yrs.” This is written by Tripp with his feet.
30331.
Written on verso “Lydia Thomas, Lamartine, Wis. Chas. B. Tripp, Woodstock, Ontario. Age 28 yrs.” Written by Tripp with his feet.
30332.
Written on verso “Mrs. Lydia Brignell, Flint Mich. Chas. B. Tripp, Woodstock, Ontario. Age 28 yrs.” Written by Tripp with his feet.
30333.
Walter H. Stuart, Boston, Mass. Age 34, 1885.
30352.
Unidentified.