Carter's Southern Museum with Santa Fe Giant and Double Headed Child

A mystery unsolved...... This fascinating, though trimmed, broadside from 1859-1860, is from the relatively unknown, "Carter's Museum" (here "Carter's Southern Museum") of Nashville, Tennessee. Affiliated with "Carter & Wells's Museum of Living Wonders," which appeared in New Orleans in December 1857, this permutation of the museum featured the same mysterious Giant, who is yet to be identified.

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