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Antique French Post Card:
Une Poignce de Main en Passant au Geant Hugo
(A Handshake Passing by Giant Hugo)

 

Early 1900s antique French postcard showing Baptiste Hugo (1876 - 1916), a sideshow circus performer who suffered from gigantism and stood than 7.5 feet tall. He toured in France and later was a performer for Barnum and Bailey's circus. The card shows him reaching to shake hands with riders on the second deck of a streetcar. This postcard appears to be from the early 1900s or 1910s. Lithograph (from photo). Divided back. Postally unused.

Will be shipped in photo mailer. Please see the other circus performer postcards in my store, Maxitivity.