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Ferris wheel at Blackpool.
Col. Noah Orr, The American Giant. Height 8 ft, 8 in., weight 550 lbs., age 22 years, at Barnum’s Museum.
The Original Eliophobus Family. Rudolph Lucasie, Wife and Son. From the Island of Madagascar. Prominent Peculiarities. White Silken Hair. Alabaster Complexion. Eyes Pink. Pupils Angular, nearly square.
John S. Elliott, largest man in Maryland. Signed on verso. The following from his death notice: “Death of the Largest Man in Maryland. John S. Elliott died at his residence in Queen Anne’s county, Md., on Sunday, of pneumonia, aged fifty-nine years. He was the largest man ever raised in Maryland, and perhaps in the United States. A few years ago, while exhibiting, he weighed nearly five hundred pounds; of late he had fallen off, and his weight was reduced to less than four hundred pounds. In height he was five feet ten inches, and two feet across from shoulder to shoulder. He generally enjoyed good health, but the disease from which he died carried him off after a few days’ illness. He was a native of Queen Anne’s county, but was well known in the adjacent counties.”
Cabinet photograph depicting a normal size man pointing to a very tall man made up to look like a native of some sort. The native man has a bone ring in both his nose and ear as well as face paint. He wears an open long-sleeve robe and has a leopard like loin covering. He wears pants and fur topped boots. He is holding something out over the head of the other man, maybe a hat.
The Centennial Photograph of “Old Abe,” the Live Wisconsin War Eagle, Agricultural Hall, International Exposition, Philadelphia, 1876.
Thomas Hanlon (1833-1868). Suffered a fall in 1865, pierced his skull, became mentally unstable as a result and committed suicide 3 years later.
3201. Cameroni’s Great Slide from “Ferris Wheel to New York to the North Pole,” World’s Fair, St. Louis, Mo.
