Souvenir of Abomah : the tallest lady in the world.

Date:
[between 1910 and 1919?]
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Souvenir of Abomah : the tallest lady in the world. In copyright. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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Description

Postcard showing Amomah, a very tall black woman wearing a full length, short-sleeved white dress, embroidered with bunches of grapes up the front and round the hem, a tiara with an ostrich feather in her hair, a necklace of pearls and a fan in her hands. She is being attended to by a much smaller white woman. The card would probably have been sold as a souvenir at places where she was exhibited as part of a freak or variety show.

Publication/Creation

[Place of publication not identified] : [publisher not identified], [between 1910 and 1919?]

Physical description

1 sheet : illustrations, portrait ; 14 cm

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    EPH499
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    EPH499:56

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