1862

One of the many interesting aspects, to me, of this much reproduced photo is the figure at right in the big hat with his hand on a saber: George Armstrong Custer.

To my view, they are all little men but one. Sacket might give him a go.

I never visited the Antietam Battlefield, but I DID visit Gettysburg, the Battle of the Wilderness, Chancelorsville, and Fredericksburg. It's a sobering visit and moment in your lifetime to traverse soil that was drenched in the blood of Union and Confederate soldiers. Hallowed ground, that these sites are. But, in the words of Ulysses S. Grant at the Appomattox Courthouse, " These (Confederate) men were once our enemy....they are now our fellow countrymen." And so, the confederates merely dropped their rifles, and went fishing for the rest of the day.

I wonder why this photo was copied with the book and the large margin included. It would be nice to be able to see the picture as it was originally taken,

This photograph is part of the Indicommons.org post The 1860s across the Commons.

Ohh the shoes in those days... So tiny! It must have hurt terribly, even if it looks quite magical.

joseph cornell would have loved this

Wow... so amazing!

Hi, I'm an admin for a group called Vintage Chiffon and other thin fabrics, and we'd love to have this added to the group!

Looks like that's Mariia Surovshchikova-Petipa (1836-1882), Russian ballerina: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Maria_Petipa

“Sadly for Patrick his disposition brought him the wrong kind of attention and ended being brought into the circus business and dragged and paraded all around Europe branded as the world tallest man. One has to feel great sympathy for the poor fellow to be so unfairly extorted due to just being different. He finally passed away after catching typhoid and died in Marseilles. He was however brought home and laid to rest in Kilbroney Graveyard.”

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His gravestone

This rang a bell. The giant's graveyard is visible in the rear left of the bleaching green photo, see comments from 12 years ago -

Perhaps not as tall as advertised

“Although it was claimed he was 8 Feet and 1 inch!
The famous German physician Dr Rudolph Virchow known as the “Father of Pathology” measured Patrick in 1860 sadly three months before he died.
He recorded his height at 7 feet 2.4 inches and weight at 24 stone”

www.visitwarrenpoint.com/patrick-murphy-the-irish-giant/

The Zoll was a Prussian unit of length pre 1872, the English ‘inch’ wasn’t in use in Germany.
However, the Zoll was practically the same length as an inch

beachcomber australia You must have a giant brain to remember that from 12 years ago!