thehistoryofheaviness:Frederick Burr Opper from his 1890 work When the Dime Museum Boom Bursts Dim
thehistoryofheaviness: Frederick Burr Opper from his 1890 work When the Dime Museum Boom Bursts Dime museums featuring human oddities were popular places of amusement for the masses in the late 19th Century. Opper’s work featured seven vignettes about what might happen to some of the acts if the dime miseum went bust. In one, the Fat Boy and the Living Skeleton team up to advertise a boarding house no doubt run by a good cook. In another, the Fat Lady is gladly hired to sit on cranks (Puck Magazine’s joke writers) who no doubt deserved their fates. -- source link