The Gilded Age Monsters of Chas. Eisenmann

From his studio on the Bowery in New York City, Charles Eisenmann photographed the great freaks and sideshow acts of the 19th century. His prints are collected in a terrific book called Monsters: Human Freaks in America’s Gilded Age, edited by Michael Mitchell. They are also available online thanks to Syracuse Universirty’s library, from which the images below are drawn…












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