Wunderkammer: The Freeman & Fugate Oddities Collection
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Lot 42
[GIANTS]. Eight Photos of Sideshow Giants. V.p., 1870s–1930...
Estimate: $250 - $500
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[GIANTS]. Eight Photos of Sideshow Giants. V.p., 1870s?1930s. Group of four Carte-de-Visites, three cabinet card photographs, and one real photo postcard depicting circus and sideshow giants including Captain Martin Van Buren Bates ?The Kentucky River Giant"; Anna Haining Bates; the Shields brothers ?The Texas Giants"; Landon Middlecoff ?The Kentucky Giant"; Capt. Smith Cook, Louis Moilanen, ?The largest man in the world" or "Big Louie", and Robert Wadlow ?The Alton Giant". By photographers including Mahn & Ohly's, Eisenmann, E. & H.T. Anthony, and Ginther. Largest 6 ? x 4 ?". All with light soiling, else good.
