LOT 502
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Lot 502
A COLLECTION OF HUMAN ODDITY CARTE D'VISITE AND CABINET CARD PHOTOGRAPHS, 19TH CENTURY. Six pieces including a photograph of Ella Kate Ewing "The Missouri Giantess" considered to be the world's tallest woman at the time with Husted Gorin, Missouri photographer's stamp; a cabinet card of the Horvath Midgets with Barnum and Bailey Circus; a cabinet card of the Mizuno family by Frank Wendt; a photograph of a very obese woman by Charles Sweet, Cincinnati; a portrait of an elderly Native American woman by a Seattle photographer, the verso inscribed "Indian lady who when a small child warned the Whites the Indians were coming to fight them"; and a photograph of Commador Nutt and Miss Minnie Warren together with an albumen portrait of Buffalo Bill with facsimile signature. The largest 6.5 inches x 4.25 inches.
Estimate:
$100 - 200
€ 80 - 160
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