Dan J. Major "Living Skeleton" Handbill

Terrific handbill showing Major at age 18 looking normal, and at age 36 with stick-like limbs." Go and See the Living Skeleton! Dan J. Major. Boston: Farwell & Co., 1859. Small one-color pictorial letterpress broadside advertising appearances by “the greatest living curiosity (as a skeleton) in the known world,” with two wood-engraved full-figure portrait images of Major before and after his mysterious affliction, for which the exhibitor offers a $1,000 reward to any physician capable of diagnosing and curing him. 12 ½ x 6”. Toning, small tears, old tape residue; "D. J.