[Circus performers: albumen carte-de-visite photoprints]
name: label: Photographer
content: Brady, Mathew B., approximately 1823-1896
label: Photographer
content: Eisenmann, Charles, b. 1850
label: Publisher
content: Anthony, E. and H.T. (Edward and Henry T)
label: Names
content: Barnum and Bailey.
label: Names
content: Thumb, Tom (Charles S. Stratton)
label: Series Creator
content: Warshaw, Isadore, 1900-1969
topic: label: Topic
content: Entertainers
label: Topic
content: Dwarfs in art
label: Topic
content: Circuses (performances)
label: Topic
content: Circus
creator: label: Photographer
content: Brady, Mathew B., approximately 1823-1896
label: Photographer
content: Eisenmann, Charles, b. 1850
label: Publisher
content: Anthony, E. and H.T. (Edward and Henry T)
setName: label: See more items in
content: Warshaw Collection of Business Americana Subject Categories: Circus
label: See more items in
content: Warshaw Collection of Business Americana Subject Categories: Circus / Business Records, Marketing Material, and Other / Circus
physdesc: label: Extent
content: 9 Items (photoprints, Silver albumen on paper, mounted on cards, approx. 4-1/4" x 2-1/2" (some smaller))
unitdate: label: Date
content: [ca. 1860-1871]
container: label: Container
content: Box 1, Folder 14
dataSource: label: Archival Repository
content: Archives Center, National Museum of American History
objectType: label: Type
content: Archival materials
label: Type
content: Photographs
label: Type
content: Tax stamps
label: Type
content: Albumen prints
label: Type
content: Cartes-de-visite
genre_format: label: Genre/Form
content: Photographs -- 1900-1950
label: Genre/Form
content: Tax stamps
label: Genre/Form
content: Albumen prints
label: Genre/Form
content: Cartes-de-visite
scopecontent: label: Scope and Contents
content: Includes: "midgets" such as Tom Thumb (Charles S. Stratton) and "Tom Thumb Wedding Group" by Brady (3 items); "Charles W. Nestel, known as Commodore Foote"; "fat lady" published by Anthony (with 2-cent tax stamp on verso); a fat lady with family photographed by Fred. J. Mix; a midget woman by Chas. Eisenmann; an armless woman, photographer unidentified, but with handwritten note on verso: "So you perceive it's / really true / When hands are / lacking toes will do. / Ann E. Leak, / Born without arms, / Oct. 24, 1871. Georgia."