Carte de visite photographic portrait of a woman in costume, annotated on the verso in early pencil, “Zalumma Agra Circassian Age 20,” one suspects inscribed by the performer herself.
[New York? n. p., ca. 1864-1868]. Printed measures 3.25 x 2.38 inches on a slightly larger unprinted green card mount with square corners. An early portrait of the first of Barnum’s bushy-haired Circassian beauties, Zalumma having allegedly been rescued from a marketplace Constantinople (and certain misery in a Turkish harem)..... More