30250.
Compliments of Miss Annie Jones, signed on verso.
Uncategorized
30251.
Miss Annie Jones, Age 23, signed on verso.
30252.
Miss Annie Jones, Bearded Lady, 1889, written on verso.
30254.
Chang and Eng.
30255.
Chang and Eng.
30256.
Prominent Portraits. No. 3918. Zuruby Hannum (Pearl of the Sea) the Circassian Girl, at Barnum’s Museum.
30257.
Prominent Portraits-The Stage. No. 2128. Zuruby Hannum, the Circassian Girl, at Barnum’s Museum.
30258.
Prominent Portraits. No. 3922. Zuruby Hannum (Pearl of the Sea) and Zuluma Agra, (Star of the East) the Circassian Girls, at Barnum’s Museum.
30259.
Chang and Eng and two of their children.
30260.
Chang and Eng, their wives, and two children.
30261.
Millie Christine.
30262.
Millie Christine.
30263.
Millie Christine.
30264.
Millie Christine.
30265.
Millie Christine.
30266.
Laloo.
30267.
Laloo.
30268.
These are the twin sons of Mrs. Henry Jones, born in Prairie Township, Tipton County, Indiana, on June 24, 1889. Mrs. Jones was only 19 years old and already had a two-year-old daughter. Various notes on back of card including “Taken while on exhibition at Wonderland. Buffalo, NY.”
30269.
Myrtle Corbin, Texas, four-legged woman.
30270.
Tocci Brothers, Giovanni and Giacomo.
30271.
Piramal & Sami, Brother & Sister, Double Bodied, Hindoo Enigma.
30275.
Willie R. Fisher, the Fat Boy of Harrisville, N.H. The Wonder of Cheshire County.
30276.
Willie R. Fisher, the Fat Boy of Harrisville, N.H. The Wonder of Cheshire County.
30277.
Prominent Portraits. No. 2843. Mrs. Hannah Battersby. Weight 700 lbs.
30278.
Prominent Portraits. No. 5540. Mammoth Fat Boy, (Barnum’s Museum), age 16 years, weights 526 pounds, measures across the shoulders three feet two inches, round the waist six feet three inches.
30282.
Unidentified Fat Lady and Family.
30283.
Amelia Hill, Fat Girl.
30284.
Maude Miller, born in NYC, age 26, weight 865 lbs.
30285.
Unidentified Fat Lady with girl.
30288.
Unidentified Fat Lady.
30292.
Alice Cherry, World’s Fattest Girl, Age 24 Years.
30293.
Fred Howe, Age 17, Weight 365. Kentucky.
30294.
Compliments of Chauncey Morlan, Age 12, weight 687.
30296.
Jno. N. Craig. I.O.O.F. K. of P. and I.O.R.M. John Hanson Craig, Kentucky.
30298.
Jno. N. Craig. I.O.O.F. K. of P. and I.O.R.M. John Hanson Craig, Kentucky.
30327.
Eli Bowen, Wife and Child.
30328.
Eli Bowen, Wife and Child.
30337.
Lucius Norval Monroe was born into slavery on January 29, 1847 on a plantation in Virginia. A normal child at first, he began to suffer a “strange disease” of the left leg when he was eight years old. Within two years his condition “took possession of his right foot” as well. The disease was probably what we now call fibrodysplasia ossificans progressiva; to this day, there remains no cure for it. Fully grown, the ossified man weighed but sixty-seven pounds and it was said that his limbs “ring like metal when struck”. It’s unclear exactly when Lucius entered show business, but by 1889, he’d already made a career for himself as a dime museum freak, competing directly with New York-born ossified man Jonathan Bass. Accompanying Lucius on exhibition were his faithful valet Mose (James Vanderhoo), and his manager Charles Smith, both of whom are shown in this photo,. Mose and Smith were charged with carrying the bedridden celebrity either in arms or on a litter. In 1891, while appearing at a museum in New York, Lucius was accidentally dropped by his companions and fell down two flights of stairs. He sustained fractures to his right femur and index finger, though because he couldn’t walk anyway his doctors elected not to splint either of the breaks.
30338.
Lucius Norval Monroe and his valet Mose (James Vanderhoo).
30346.
Charles Tripp, the Armless Wonder.
30347.
Written on verso “Charles B. Tripp. Woodstock Ontario Age 34 yrs. Mrs. Sarah Van Ross 622 North St. Meadville Pa. Sep. 1889.” Written by Tripp with his feet.
30352.
Unidentified.
30353.
Unidentified.
30354.
Madam LeRoy. Golden Hair six feet long.
30355.
Miss Mary Sutherland.
30356.
Unidentified.
30357.
Miss Isabella Sutherland.
30358.
Miss Isabella Sutherland.
30359.
Unidentified.
30360.
Unidentified.