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[LIVING SKELETON]. Three Items Pertaining to Living Skeletons. Includes: Go and See the Living Skeleton! Dan J. Major. Boston: Farwell & Co., 1859. Small one-color pictorial letterpress broadside advertising appearances by “the greatest living curiosity (as a skeleton) in the known world,” with two wood-engraved full-figure portrait images of Major before and after his mysterious affliction, for which the exhibitor offers a $1,000 reward to any physician capable of diagnosing and curing him. 12 ½ x 6”. Toning, small tears, old tape residue; — CDV of Isaac W. Sprague (1841 – 87) with his wife (Tamar Moore) and young son. Hand dated 1873. Sprague appeared with P. T. Barnum’s American Museum freak show in New York. 4 x 2 ½”; — Mr. I. W. Sprague. New York: Chas. Eisenman, ca. 1880s. CDV of Sprague with his wife and three sons, captioned below. 4 x 2 ½”. Minor edge wear.