Please answer the following question: Facts: - caption: cabinet card of eisenmann , verso - death date: 8 december 1927 - field: photography - education: w. w. washburn in new orleans - birth date: 5 october 1855 - name: charles eisenmann - nationality: american - image: charles eisenmann cdv verso.png - birth place: germany Based on these bullet points, write a short biography describing the life of charles eisenmann .
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charles eisenmann -lrb- october 5 , 1855 -- december 8 , 1927 -rrb- was a famous new york photographer during the late 1880s who worked in the bowery district .eisenmann 's photography was sold in the form of cabinet cards , popular in this era , available to the middle class .eisenmann also supplied duke tobacco company with cheesecake photography to stuff in their tobacco cans .the book '' victorian cartes-de-visite '' credits eisenmann with being the most prolific and well known photographer when it comes to cabinet cards .his work was the subject of a 1979 monograph , '' monsters of the gilded age '' , focusing on his work on human oddities from the barnum and bailey circus , with a notable widely circulated picture of jojo the dog-faced boy .although a number of his photographs were of obvious fakes -lrb- called '' gaffed freaks '' -rrb- , many others were genuinely anomalous , including the giant ruth goshen , the four-legged girl myrtle corbin , and the siamese twins chang and eng and millie and christine .