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[GIANTS]. Eight Photos of Sideshow Giants. V.p., 1870s–1930s. Group of four Carte-de-Visites, three cabinet card photographs, and one real photo postcard depicting circus and sideshow giants including Captain Martin Van Buren Bates “The Kentucky River Giant"; Anna Haining Bates; the Shields brothers “The Texas Giants"; Landon Middlecoff “The Kentucky Giant"; Capt. Smith Cook, Louis Moilanen, “The largest man in the world" or "Big Louie", and Robert Wadlow “The Alton Giant". By photographers including Mahn & Ohly's, Eisenmann, E. & H.T. Anthony, and Ginther. Largest 6 ½ x 4 ¼". All with light soiling, else good.