Portrait of Melba James by Unknown, United States
Portrait of Melba James by Unknown, United States
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Carte de visite depicting Melba James, a resident of Creston, Ohio and relative of Richard Julius James (1852-1891), the "Ohio Fat Boy" in P.T. Barnum's Circus. Note on verso indicates that Melba weighed 722 pounds at age 32.
Photographer is possibly Theodore Teeple of Wooster, Ohio.

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