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TRIPP, Charles B. (1855–1930). GROUP OF CABINET PHOTOS, CDVS, AND A PITCH BOOK. V.p., ca. 1870s-1900s. Two CDVs, two cabinet card portraits, and a four-page leaflet, Autobiography of the Armless Phenomenon (Kensington: E. Arnold, 30 Blythe Road, n.d.). Photographs 6½ × 4¼; 41/8 × 2½". Two of these images are SIGNED by Tripp on the mount verso, at age 29 and 30, one inscribed to a Corinne Harvey of Meadville, Pa. Includes a CDV, undated, without imprint, of Tripp at an early age, perhaps his early twenties. Tripp was born without arms but became skilled with various tools as a calligrapher and carpenter.