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[BEARDED LADY] CLOFULLIA, Josephine (1829 – 70). COL. WOOD’S MUSEUM OF LIVING WONDERS. Ogensburgh, N.Y.: Hitchcock, Tillotson & Stillwell, Printers, ca. 1865. Pictorial broadside for the traveling exhibition from Wood’s Museum of Chicago at a fairground and featuring the bearded Swiss lady Clofullia together with “Young Esau,” a bearded child, who share the bill Monsieur Ginoccio the Swiss Warbler. Wood-engraved full-length images accompany the descriptive text inside a patterned border. 22 ¾ x 7 ¾”. Border chips and ink stains, old folds with tiny losses at intersections.