Miss Susan Barton: the mammoth lady – Vintage Print
(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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Few images capture their era like this antique lithograph of Miss Susan Barton: the mammoth lady. It comes from the collections of the Library of Congress, scanned from the original and carefully restored.
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Miss Susan Barton: the mammoth lady
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Susan Barton, billed here as "the mammoth lady," was a woman whose great size made her a popular attraction in the 1840s, when traveling shows and museum exhibitions drew crowds with human oddities. Nathaniel Currier, who ran a busy New York lithography firm, issued this hand-colored print around 1849 to advertise her appearance and to capitalize on public curiosity. Prints like this one were cheap, widely circulated, and often colored by hand, so they survive in quantity and offer a window into the popular entertainment and promotional culture of the period.
| Created / published | New York : Published by N. Currier, c1849. |
|---|---|
| Medium | 1 print : lithograph, hand-colored. |
| Genre | Lithographs Hand-colored 1840-1850. |
| Notes | Currier & Ives : a catalogue raisonné / compiled by Gale Research. Detroit, MI : Gale Research, c1983, no. 4524 |
| Source | Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division |
| Original scan | 1,008 × 1,536 px · prints to 3 × 5 in at 300 dpi |
| Reference | AMZ-SOTP-HPA-175387 |
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