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ILLAVARO. Three CDVs of Illavaro the Egyptian. New York: Charles Eisenmann, ca. 1880s. Carte de visite photographs on studio mounts (3 ½ x 2 ¼”), including a full-length, seated bust, and reclining portraits. Illavaro, or Zuniga as she also called herself, was one of P.T. Barnum’s Circassian Beauties. She was African American but exoticized as Egyptian. Two CDVs SIGNED in graphite on the verso, one as “Illavaro,” the other as “Zuniga.”