Beschreibung:

[GIANTS]. Collection of 20 CDVs and cabinet cards of giant ladies and fat people. American, ca. 1880s/1910s. Including four cabinet photos and 16 carte-de-visite photographs, many of the subjects named on the imprint and identified or signed on the reverse. One woman is posed beside a “living skeleton” male subject; a “giant lady” billed as weighing 675 pounds; and an 8 year old girl recorded as weighing 269 pounds. Includes three Charles Eisenmann (New York) photographs; as well as other studios in New York, Boston, Chicago, Wooster, Ohio; Seville, Ohio; Warterville, Me; and Burlington, Ia. One cabinet photo with chipped lower edge mount; scattered creasing, but overall condition very good.