Anatomy.- Challenge to the World For Ten Thousand Dollars. Crecraft's Exhibition...American Giant Sisters..., printed playbill, some creasing to head, few nicks or very short tears to extremities, 290 x 115mm., Glasgow, Adam & Kinnon, [c.1870s] § Now Exhibiting, L'Anatomie Vivante, or Living Skeleton!...At the Chinese Saloon..., printed handbill, few spots, 187 x 125mm., E. Thomas, 1825 [dated by hand in ink to head] § Annie Abbott the Little Georgia Magnet...She lifts 10 Men without Muscular Force, and 10 Men cannot Lift her..., printed playbill on pink paper, light central stain, extremities slightly faded and little frayed with a few short tears, 248 x 145mm., Oldfield & Co., 16th January 1905; and another advertising a bearded lady, v.s. (4)
⁂ Advertising a variety of anatomical 'phenomenona'. The "living skeleton" is likely Claude-Ambroise Seurat, a Frenchman known for his extraordinarily low body weight who was exhibited at the Chinese Saloon during a tour of London in 1825. After Seurat's death it was discovered that a tapeworm had been depriving him of nutrition.
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