Sideshows, Elks Club convention, Detroit, Michigan

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Sideshows, Elks Club convention, Detroit, Michigan
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
Resource ID:
na005963
Creator:
Spooner & Wells
Subject:
Sideshows--Michigan--Detroit
Elks (Fraternal order)
Congresses and conventions--Michigan--Detroit
Photographers--Michigan--Detroit
Photographic prints
Date Issued:
1910-07
Format:
1 photographic print ; 5 x 7 in.
Member of:
National Automotive History Collection
Lazarnick Collection
Filing Location:
Conventions--Elks Club convention (Detroit, Mich.), 1910 #1
Negative Number:
Negative #C8585
Rights:
Physical rights are retained by DPL. Copyright is retained in accordance with U.S. copyright laws.