This lot is closed for bidding. Bidding ended on 7/11/2024
[DIME MUSEUM]. Strongest Man Alive / The Man Who Can’t Stop Walking / Wild West. [Chicago], ca. 1880s. Two letterpress pictorial broadsides/heralds, double-sided for attractions at Kohl and Middleton’s South Side Dime Museum. The first featuring on one side: The man who can’t stop walking, John Owen Snyder. Verso: lifting competition against strong man, Edward C. Stickney; Railroad Brakeman Wells; The Elastic Skin Man Herr Henri Hagg; burlesque statue posings. The second featuring National Convention of Genuine Cowboys featuring wild west reenactments, “Col. Jo Shelley (Mexican Jo), slayer of the notorious bandit Sam Bass”; Two Strictly Moral Theatres, Two Mammoth Curio Halls. Each 21 x 7”. Scattered old repairs with tape, chipping and losses at edges.