Johann Petursson & Doll Family

Press Photo (7x9). Famed "Icelandic Giant" Johann Petursson greets Daisy Doll of the Doll Family inside the Ringling Brothers Barnum & Bailey sideshow tent. From left to right, Baron Paucci (?), Daisy Doll Earles, Gracie Doll, Tiny Doll, Harry Doll Earles. Typical bally platform signs behind them advertise "[Motion Pict}ure Midgets" and Kutee Singlee, Fire Proof Man From India." On verso: Rubberstamp: [photo by] "Sy Seidman 4 W. 22nd Street, New York." Seidman was a well-known baseball photographer.

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