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The Quaker giant and giantess. As exhibited at Barnums American museum, New York 1849 – Vintage Print

The Quaker giant and giantess. As exhibited at Barnums American museum, New York 1849, [no date recorded on shelflist card] — historic print
The Quaker giant and giantess. As exhibited at Barnums American museum, New York 1849, [no date recorded on shelflist card]. Historic print from the New York City collection.

(Originally scanned by the Library of Congress. Each image is professionally and digitally cleaned of artifacts such as color bars and extra borders prior to printing.)

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This historic print of The Quaker giant and giantess. As exhibited at Barnums American museum, New York 1849 brings a moment of history to your wall. The original is held by the Library of Congress, so what you hang is a true record of its time.

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The Quaker giant and giantess. As exhibited at Barnums American museum, New York 1849

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Few attractions in 1849 New York drew crowds like the giants on display at Barnum's American Museum, and this print presents a pair billed as "the Quaker giant and giantess." Phineas T. Barnum's Broadway museum mixed curiosities, performers and natural history under one roof, and it stood as a fixture of city life from the early 1840s until a fire destroyed it in 1865. Exhibition prints like this one served as both advertising and souvenir, so the image shows how Barnum sold novelty as much as it records the performers themselves.

Created / published[no date recorded on shelflist card]
Medium1 print.
NotesThis record contains unverified data from PGA shelflist card. Associated name on shelflist card: Nagel & Weingartner.
SourceLibrary of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division
Original scan1,219 × 1,536 px · prints to 4 × 5 in at 300 dpi
ReferenceAMZ-SOTP-HPA-124772

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