Photo
1880s
With his studio located in the Bowery, New York City, photographer Charles Eisenmann began photographing portraits of show people from dime museums in the 1870s. Eisenmann worked on his archive of “freaks” throughout the 1870s and 80s, which he sold in the cabinet style as collectables.
Born with a beautiful face and giant feet, Fanny Mills came with a dowry of $5000 cash and a “well stocked farm” in Ohio from her desperate father, to any single men willing to take her as bride.
(via N A R U Y A M A and turnofthecentury)
