Big Winnie Johnson, At The Eden Musee, Indianapolis

Two-sided, trimmed (9.5x6.25") handbill printed on yellow paper, featuring the famed African-American Fat Woman performer drawn cartoonishly with an enormous bosom. Appellations and honorifics virtually flow-- "Her Gigantic Majesty, The Living Mastodon, A Half Ton of Flesh..." "Hataelman [?] Journal Co., Printers, Indianapolis."..........This branch of the New York Eden Musée was in Indianapolis, Indiana where Winnie Johnson appeared in September 1887. See newspaper article below.

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