EISENMANN, BRADY and others [photographers] Performers and human odditiesA cabinet card by EISENMANN

A cabinet card by EISENMANN of the four Shields brothers, of White Rock, Texas, who were billed as being between 7 feet 8 inches and 8 feet 0 inches tall, but in reality none of them exceeded 7 feet 0 inches. They were between 6 feet 8 inches and 6 feet 11 inches when they joined a Barnum & Bailey sideshow around 1880. They were also known as The Texas Giants.Shadrick Archibald Shields (a.k.a. Shade Shields at 6 feet 8 inches), Augustus Orion Shields (a.k.a. Guss Shields at 6 feet 9 inches), John Franklin Shields (a.k.a. Frank Shields at 6 feet 10.5 inches), and Jack Robinson Shields (a.k.a. Jack Shields at 6 feet 11 inches).

Two cdvs of Tom Thumb and spouse, one by Brady with printed dedication, one cdv of Emily Rigl (1854 - ?) a 19th-century stage actress who performed in the United States, a cdv of Ellie Bowen , Wife and Child. Eli Bowen was born in 1844 in Ohio  He began his career at the Major Brown Colosseum at the age of 13, starting out at Midwestern circus wagon shows and moving on to dime museums. By the 1870s he had toured the nation. He then joined Barnum and Bailey and toured Europe at the turn of the century. At the age of 26, Eli married Mattie Haight, who was ten years younger, and the two had five children.  

Together eleven images of different sizes, all but one American, one European. Various conditions 

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