The Ricky Jay Collection Part III

[DIME MUSEUM]. Startling Additions to the New York Museum of Anatomy. New York: Metropolitan Job Printing and Engraving Establishment, ca. late 1860s. Fascinating one-color letterpress broadside advertising the “extensive curiosities” on display at this venue for the strange and unusual. Visitors could view a “lady’s foot resembling a human face,” “pigs with the heads and trunks of elephants,” the “heads of all the notorious English murderers and murderesses,” and a “galvanic toilet bowl.” Unbacked. 18 x 5 ½”. Horizontal tear to top portion affecting text, browning at top and bottom, chipping with losses to corners. Ricky Jay’s notes indicate that Henry Jacob Jordan and Samuel T. E. Beck founded The Parisian Cabinet of Wonders at 563 Broadway, but changed its name to The New York Museum of Anatomy, moving to 618 Broadway in 1863.