Posted 7 years ago
ho2cultcha
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i had this barnum and bailey albino family poster framed in an old piecrust frame i had. i like how it looks and it's hanging on my wall now. a friend does very nice framing work in downtown oakland.
where is the visual arts category? and prints? and paintings?
This is very cool. Now that's the second time tonite I've heard the term "Pie crust", the other was describing a lawn chair! I've never heard of either!!! It's making me hungry tho. lol
I love this!! I too would have framed this one. So unique!
Fun poster! Visual Arts is now Fine Arts. :)
thanks shareurpassion, jscotto and Hunter! doesn't take much to get me lost!
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Circassian hair!
So stunning to see a whole family of albinos :-)
thanks hunter and kyra!
Fantastic!
The Wonderful Lucasie Albino Family
Currier & Ives lithograph of Rudolph Lucasie, his wife and children, between 1857 & 1872. The Albino Lucasie family were European, but P.T. Barnum, who discovered them at the 1857 Amsterdam fair, gave out that they were Negroes from Madagascar and claimed that their pink eyes remained staring even as they slept. He brought them to New York to work at his American Museum. The Lucasies performed together for 40 years. When Antoinette died, Rudolph continued performing in vaudeville as an albino violinist. He died in Kansas City in 1909. Albinism is a congenital disorder characterized by the complete or partial absence of pigment in the skin, hair and eyes due to absence or defect of tyrosinase, a copper-containing enzyme involved in the production of melanin. Albinism results from inheritance of recessive gene alleles and is known to affect all vertebrates, including humans. Albinism is associated with a number of vision defects, such as photophobia, nystagmus and astigmatism. Lack of skin pigmentation makes for more susceptibility to sunburn and skin cancers.