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Mummy of John Wilkes Booth.

Posted: Mon Feb 13, 2012 10:38 am
by jones jones
A carnival employee selling tickets to see a mummy purported to be John Wilkes Booth. Photograph by William Vandivert. USA, 1937.



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Mummy of John Wilkes Booth.

Posted: Mon Feb 13, 2012 10:39 am
by jones jones

Mummy of John Wilkes Booth.

Posted: Mon Feb 13, 2012 10:49 am
by AnneBoleyn
I think you post extraordinarily interesting stuff-this being one of them. Thanks.

Mummy of John Wilkes Booth.

Posted: Mon Feb 13, 2012 10:57 am
by jones jones
AnneBoleyn;1384478 wrote: I think you post extraordinarily interesting stuff-this being one of them. Thanks.


Thanx so much Annie!

Mummy of John Wilkes Booth.

Posted: Tue Feb 14, 2012 5:59 am
by tabby
The huckster looks so classically seedy!

Mummy of John Wilkes Booth.

Posted: Tue Feb 14, 2012 9:20 am
by YZGI
tabby;1384556 wrote: The huckster looks so classically seedy!


I'm thinking he was the huckster and played the mummy.

Mummy of John Wilkes Booth.

Posted: Fri Feb 17, 2012 7:05 am
by spot
jones jones;1384470 wrote: A carnival employee selling tickets to see a mummy purported to be John Wilkes Booth. Photograph by William Vandivert. USA, 1937.And coincidentally, from today's trivia: "10. Finis Bates created a stir when he suggested that the following individual had survived his supposed death."