[Dime Museum] Stanhope & Epstean. Dime Museum

[Dime Museum] Stanhope & Epstean. Dime Museum Broadsheet. Chicago: Dalziel Ptg. Co., 1886. Two-sided broadsheet herald (4 x 26 ”) illustrated with woodcuts. Attractions and personalities including wax and taxidermy figures; Mlle. Arline, “The Wonderful Human Match”; “Vernona! Man of Mystery and Fire Demon, in Feats of Voodoo Fire Eating/ Breathing, Drinking and Juggling Fire!”; sideshow characters including a champion whistler and fat man; natural specimens; and monsters of the forest, sea and jungle. Scattered nicks at ends. Matted, in a gilt floral frame.