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CAB-"TEXAS GIANTS" BY CHARLES EISENMANN CA 1880 BY EISENMANN, A CLEAN CARD WITH THE BOTTOM TRIMMED TO FIT ALBUM. NAME IS ON VERSO WITH NY ADDRESS. The four Shields brothers, of White Rock, Texas, were between seven feet eight inches to just shy of eight feet when they joined a Barnum & Bailey sideshow around 1880. Shade, Guss, Frank, and Jack Shields each made about six dollars a day as 'The Texas Giants.' Three of the brothers returned to Texas after 10 years, but Shade trouped on into the 1890s. At one point, he and his tall, Irish wife, Annie, were billed as 'The Texas Giant and Giantess.' After Shade retired, he and Guss ran a saloon in Greenville. But in his last years, recalling the magic of the big top, Shade spent most of his time on Missouri riverboats with his good friend and fellow circus veteran, 36-inch-tall Major Ray, who had formed one half of 'the smallest married couple in the world.'Eisenmann, a German immigrant, opened his studio on the Bowery in 1879 and soon began to photograph the many entertainers and personalities who came to the neighborhood to perform at the theatres and dime museums that dominated the area. Famed for his portraits of sideshow freaks and even P.T. Barnum himself in 1885.(see 'Monsters Of The Gilded Age - The Photographs of Chas. Eisenmann' by Michael 
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