Tattooed Man

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Cat Dress

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Clown Portrait

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Have You Met My Mummy?

19th century advertising CDV of E. M. Worth's "American Museum" of Boston.

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Elliot H. Crane's Electro-Dynamic Mummifying Compound

The imprint states that Crane's process can preserve birds, animals and reptiles without removing the flesh, thereby retaining the life-like for and expression, thus saving 75 percent of the time formerly occupied in skinning and stuffing, and that Human Bodies are also perfectly Embalmed by this process.  A hotel residence line is inked Lansing, Mich., suggesting Crane was touring in order to promote his product.

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Civil War Era Anti-Confederate CDV

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CDV of a Model Church

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Contemplating Darwin

19th century CDV of a stuffed monkey sitting on top of three books by Charles Darwin.

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National Sanitary Cake

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Bunnell's Three Headed Songstress

Circa 1880 CDV of a freak show banner. Sold for $240.05 on eBay.

CDV of an Amputated Civil War Doll

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Deep Sea Diver- Before and After

CDV of a deep sea diver with street clothes on and also in full gear.

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Lincoln Memorial

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Ivanovich the Hairy Man

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Haunted

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Civil War Fighting Dog

Seller's Description:

"CDV of Dog "Jack" Attached to the 102nd Regiment Pennsylvania Vols, was in the following Battles :
Siege of Yorktown, Battle of Williamsburg, Fair Oaks, Battle of the Pickets, Malvern Hill (wounded), First and Second Fredericksburg, Captured at Salem Church and exchanged for two Confederate Prisoners and returned.

 

Dog Jack, a mixed-breed warrior, conducted himself with such valor during the Civil War that the men of the 102nd Pennsylvania Volunteer Regiment exchanged a Confederate prisoner for him when he was captured and commissioned a portrait of him at war's end.

A plaque hanging by the large oil portrait of Dog Jack tells much of what is known about him. He was the mascot of the Niagara Volunteer Fire Co. on Penn Avenue, which was headquartered close to the present-day Engine Co. 3 in the Strip District. He went with the firefighters when they enlisted in the 102nd Pennsylvania Volunteer Regiment in 1861 "and fought in most of their battles except during his period of captivity when he was a prisoner of war," reads the plaque. He took part in the Wilderness campaign, the battle of Spotsylvania and the siege of Petersburg, all in Virginia.

Dog Jack was known for charging straight to the front lines during battle. He was said to understand bugle calls and obey orders only from his own regiment. After battle, he would roam the battlefield, seeking out wounded and dead comrades. He twice was taken prisoner.

"Captured at Salem Church, six months later he was exchanged for a Confederate prisoner at Belle Isle, Va." says the plaque (other accounts say he was traded for two Confederate POWs). "At Savage Station he was again captured but managed to escape."

 

Jack was badly wounded at Malvern Hill in Virginia but returned to the regiment after recovering in a field hospital. His last campaign was in Maryland.

On Dec. 23, 1864, Dog Jack disappeared in Frederick, Md., and was never found."

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Man Decapitates Own Head!

Pre-Photoshop.

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The Gorilla

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Text on the back of the CDV reads:
This stuffed specimen of the Troglodytes Gorilla belongs to the Zoological Cabinet of Anherst College. He was killed near the Gaboon River, in Africa, in the Spring of 1862, and presented by Rev. Wm. Walker, Missionary. From marks upon the skeleton he evidently was an old fellow, and had seen hard fighting.


The attitude in which he is placed is taken from Du Chaillu's Book of Travels, representing the appearance of one that killed his hunter, whose gun missed fire when endeavoring to shoot the Gorilla. In his rage he killed the hunter with one blow upon his bowels, bent his gun with his hands, and bit thee gun barrel so hard as to leave marks of his teeth upon it.

An "Old Soldier"

CDV of a cigar left by General Ulysses S. Grant at Houseworth's Photographic Studio.

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The James Gang

Circa 1876 CDV photograph of the bodies of Clell Miller and Bill Chadwell - members of the infamous James-Younger Gang killed during the legendary attempt to rob the First National Bank of Northfield, Minnesota - the botched robbery that spelled the end of the James-Younger Gang.

Seller's description:
  The Image depicts the dead bodies of Clell Miller and Bill Chadwell which were propped up, side-by-side, in a seated position and put on display by the citizens of Northfield immediately after their death at the hands of Northfield citizens who mounted armed resistance in an effort to thwart the Bank Robbery. Miller and Chadwell were killed during the botched Northfield Bank Robbery before the other members of the Gang could escape with a sum total of $26.70 taken from the Bank.

    On September 7 , 1876 , the James-Younger Gang (Frank and Jesse James, Cole, Bob and Jim Younger; Charley Pitts, Clell Miller, and Bill Chadwell) attempted their most daring raid to date, on the First National Bank of Northfield, Minnesota . The gang divided into two groups. Three men (Jesse James, Bob Younger, and Charley Pitts) entered the bank, and two (Cole Younger and Clell Miller ) guarded the door outside, and other three members of the gang (Frank James, Jim Younger and Bill Chadwell) stayed in their saddles and remained near a bridge across an adjacent square. The robbers inside the bank were thwarted when acting cashier Joseph Lee Heywood refused to open the safe, falsely claiming that it was secured by a time lock even as they held a bowie knife to his throat and cracked his skull with a pistol butt. Meanwhile, the citizens of Northfield grew suspicious of the men guarding the door and raised the alarm. The five bandits outside fired in the air to clear the streets, which merely drove the townspeople to take cover and fire back from protected positions. Two of the outlaws (Clell Miller & Bill Chadwell) were shot dead and the rest were wounded in the barrage. Inside, the flummoxed outlaws turned to flee. As they left, one shot the unarmed Heywood in the head. The identity of the shooter has been the subject of extensive speculation and debate, but remains uncertain.

    The James Brothers, Charlie Pitts and the Younger Brothers escaped the Town of Northfield but Pitts and the Younger Brothers were tracked down in a nearby swamp. The Youngers were captured, Pitts was killed and the James Brothers (who had split from the others) escaped across the border to Missouri.

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