M0015553EA: Show bill for "Barnum's Prize Ladies" / M0015553EB: Show bill for "American Giant Sisters"

Two images on one negative: an advertisement for an appearance by Barnum's Boston Prize ladies (Minnie and Rhoda Holland), "weighing together nearly half-a-ton" and an advertisement for Mr Crecraft's exhibition, featuring Miss Minnie and Miss Eliza, known as the "Cab-breakers".

December 1956

1 photograph glass plate negative; 10.2 x 12.7 cm

Wellcome Collection holds one of the items depicted in the glass plate negative

Catalogue data comes from a combination of entries in the original glass plate registers, metadata created when the glass plates were digitised in the early 2000s and enhancements made by the cataloguer in 2021.

Please consult the digitised version as this item is fragile. Email library@wellcomecollection.org to request access to the physical item.