Print, Photographic, Photograph, Cabinet

Object/Artifact

-

Waseca County History Center

Name/Title

Print, Photographic, Photograph, Cabinet

Entry/Object ID

1.91.133

Description

Unzie, Albino Man. 6 1/4" x 4 1/4" black and white photograph of allbino man identified only as Unzie, wearing a tuxedo, with white mustache, eyebrows, and very large fuzzy white hairdo; photographed by Wesner, 127 W. First St., Los Angeles, Cal., printed on cabinet card mat; thought to have lectured at the Waseca Chautauqua at Maplewood Park in 1890.

Context

Portraits printed in newspaper in 1991 with positive results. "Unzie," an Australian albino born in 1869 in New South Wales; visited U.S.A. in 1890 to lecture. Possibly appeared in Waseca at the Chautauqua. Article in Frederick Drimmer "Very Special People." Amjon Publishers Inc., New York; pages 197, 363, 364.

Cataloged By

pauline

Lexicon

Legacy Lexicon

Object Name

Print, Photographic, Photograph, Cabinet

Class

Documentary Artifact

Category

Communication Artifacts

Condition

Overall Condition

Good

Create Date

March 19, 1992

Update Date

November 21, 2024