Captain & Mrs. M.V. Bates

Trade Card. Oversized 4x7" sepia ad promo for this famous couple (former Anna Swan) showing them with their manager. Published by CLAY & COMPANY. On verso: AT AN EXPENSE OF Twenty Thousand Dollars, There has been secured, for the season of 1879, FOR W. W. COLE'S Great New-York & New Orleans Shows The Two Greatest Curiosities in Existence. The Tallest Man and Woman on the Face of the Earth, Each of whom are (lacking only 1-2 inch), 8 FEET HIGH! THE TWO GIANTS, MAN AND WIFE, CAPT. & MRS. M.V.

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