Image / Sidonia tatooed man with Sells & Rentfrows Shows, Oct. 5-th, 1893

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Title: Sidonia tatooed man with Sells & Rentfrows Shows, Oct. 5-th, 1893
Contributor: Obermüller and Kern
Date Created and/or Issued: 1893
Contributing Institution: California State Library
Collection: California History Section Picture Catalog
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Description: 2016-2562.
Title handwritten on verso.
From the David Stoddard Atwood collection, T&D collection.
Waist-length portrait.
Kay Atwood;
Tom Sidonia, died 1954 at age 86 in Bedford, Va. Was circus performer (tight rope artist, trick bicycle rider), known as world's most tattooed man.
Type: image
Format: Unmediated
Sheet
Portraits.
Photographs.
Nonprojected graphic
Extent: 1 photograph : boudoir card ; 6 3/8 x 4 1/8 in.
Identifier: (C)001566449CSL01-Aleph
Language: English
Subject: Sidonia, Tom,, 1868-1954--Portraits
Tattooed people--Photographs
Circus performers
Tattoos
Photographic prints
Portrait photographs
Boudoir card photographs

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