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bbcard1 07-27-2018 08:47 AM

SOT and suggestion for summer reading / Nonsports collectors please help
 
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Do any cards exist of Eko and Iko, George and Willie Muse who were circus attractions performing under a number of names such as the Ambassadors from Mars and the Sheepheaded Cannibals.

The are the subject of and interesting book, Truevine by Beth Macy, which I would recommend as a summer read. The two albino African American boys were kidnapped and it is the story of the family trying to get them back and race relations in general. Beth is a talented writer (Factory man) and I have found this to be pretty through provoking.

https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/28962954-truevine

I know the brothers had several souvenir pictures distributed, but they preformed globally and I was curios if they ever appeared on a tobacco or gum card.

Mods, feel free to move this if you wish, but I figured I could get more eyeballs on it posting here.

1880nonsports 07-28-2018 02:33 PM

as a sideshow sidenote
 
Rob Lifson was co-author of a book about freaks. I have a signed copy somewhere......


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