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Greatest Living Wonder of the Age : 4-legged child! J. Myrtle Corban.   (Wikidata search (Cirrus search) Wikidata query (SPARQL)  Create new Wikidata item based on this file)
Author
Clarksville Tobacco-Leaf Printers, publishers
Joseph Jones  (1838–1896)  wikidata:Q19565232 s:en:Author:Joseph Jones
 
Description educator and surgeon
Date of birth/death 1838 Edit this at Wikidata 17 February 1896 Edit this at Wikidata
Authority file
creator QS:P170,Q19565232
(author, certifying physician)
Paul F. Eve  (1806–1877)  wikidata:Q52800841 q:pl:Paul Eve
 
Paul F. Eve
Alternative names
Paul Eve; Paul Fitzsimmons Eve
Description American surgeon and military officer
Date of birth/death 27 June 1806 Edit this at Wikidata 3 November 1877 Edit this at Wikidata
Location of birth/death Richmond County Nashville
Authority file
creator QS:P170,Q52800841
(author, certifying physician)
Roylance-Purcell (N.Y.), engraver
Title
Greatest Living Wonder of the Age : 4-legged child! J. Myrtle Corban.
Description
English: The broadside includes a short description of Myrtle Corban and transcript of a "medical certificate" attesting her condition.... It further explains that her parents' "only object in the exhibition is to gain means to give the child a thorough education, and if possible a competency for life." Illustration depicts mother attending the seated child who is wearing a short dress which reveals 4 lower limbs. Exhibition times and admission costs are also noted.
Depicted people Myrtle Corbin
Date between 1871 and 1881
date QS:P571,+1850-00-00T00:00:00Z/7,P1319,+1871-00-00T00:00:00Z/9,P1326,+1881-00-00T00:00:00Z/9
Medium newsprint
medium QS:P186,Q11032
Dimensions height: 36 cm (14.1 in); width: 13 cm (5.1 in)
dimensions QS:P2048,36U174728
dimensions QS:P2049,13U174728
institution QS:P195,Q1230739
Credit line
English: The University of Texas at Arlington Libraries Special Collections
Source/Photographer University of Texas at Arlington Libraries
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