Sideshows, Elks Club convention, Detroit, Michigan
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Description
View of sideshow tents during Elks Club convention in Detroit, Michigan. Signs read: "Elma, fattest girl living; Elma, age 19 yrs., weight 731 lbs., this is Elma" and "The little Russian prince, the smallest adult on earth, he is certainly the limit." Stamped on back: "Spooner & Wells, Inc., photographers, telephone North 1745. 1231 Woodward Ave., Detroit, Mich. Detroit, 1231 Woodward, New York, 1931 Broadway." Handwritten on back: "Conventions--Elks Club Convention, 1910. Amusements."
Details
- Creator:
- Spooner & Wells
- Resource ID:
- na005963
- Subject:
- Sideshows--Michigan--Detroit
- Elks (Fraternal order)
- Congresses and conventions--Michigan--Detroit
- Photographers--Michigan--Detroit
- Photographic prints
- Date:
- 1910-07
- Format:
- 1 photographic print ; 5 x 7 in.
- Department:
- National Automotive History Collection
- Collection:
- Lazarnick Collection
- Location:
- Conventions--Elks Club convention (Detroit, Mich.), 1910 #1
- Negative Number:
- Negative #C8585
- Copyright:
- Physical rights are retained by DPL. Copyright is retained in accordance with U.S. copyright laws.