Boston Museum Tradecard with White Elephant and Minstrels
Shown on this stock tradecard is a very thin comical bather holding a paddle. On verso is an advertisement for The Boston Museum: "Two Weeks, commencing Monday, June 2d., Barlow, Wilson & Co's MINSTRELS and the "Only Real" White Elephant, Captured at Marblehead, and costing $50,000,000. Remember to be seen only at BOSTON MUSEUM." (Date is calculated: June 2, 1873, was a Monday)
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