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Cabinet Photo of Fred Defrates, “Wild Man from Australia.” Circa 1894. Photograph on cabinet mount with gilt edges, depicting the performer “with horns on his fingers and toes nearly 1 ½” long,” on tour with the Walter L. Main circus. Apparently signed by Defrates on the verso; additional notations in ink and graphite below. 6 3/8 x 4 1/8”. Contemporary news reports described Defrates as a “wild man from Australia, with claws like a bear, and flowing hair as heavy as the mane of a Shetland pony.”