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Currier & Ives Lithograph of Giant Baby

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Title: Vantile Mack, the Infant Lambert, or Giant Baby!! 7 Years old, Weighs 257 pounds! Measures 61 inches around the chest!! 36 inches around the leg!! With his mother, only 21 years of age. Now Exhibiting at Barnum's American Museum.
Author: Currier & Ives
Description: Lithograph, hand-colored. 14x10, hinged to mat.Lithograph of a medical curiosity, the largest child of his age ever known. He was visited, at the Museum, by hundreds of thousands, and never failed to astonish the most incredulous. He was reared in one of the rural districts of Pennsylvania, and died in New York City, in February, 1861, literally suffocated with his own fat. Conningham 6360.
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Publisher: Currier & Ives
Date Published: c.1860