Maggie Murphy "Giantess" at Tilyou's Steeplechase Park

Photo of Maggie Murphy and friends on this rare Private Mailing Card. Maggie is a huge costumed-character-- posed in front of the very early entrance to Steeplechase Park with group of 14 others. The giant white horse statues on the roof are beautiful and display with the simple ornate entrance a less glitzy version of this early Coney Island amusement park. On verso: "Rumford Printing Company, Concord, N.H"............ The real Maggie Murphy was a 7'2" Giantess exhibited when she was 19 years old at Steeplechase Park.

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