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Bearded Bike Lady! Madame Delait (here Delay for some reason) again, sans plate thankfully. More about bearded ladies here: http://missioncreep.com/mundie/gallery/gallery2.htm
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Can’t help thinking this is one for Regretsy…
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More about Madame Delait, fascinating stuff. So previous pic was not a ‘Shop job as I and others wondered.
Madame Delait, the bearded lady of Plombières: “Madame Delait was proprietor, after the death of her husband in 1928, of the ‘Café de la femme au barbe’ at Thaon-les-Vosges. She let her beard grow as the result of a bet. She became a celebrity and travelled to exhibit herself in England and Ireland. Many photographs and picture postcards of her were published” (Photographic postcard by Scherr, 1923, in the Wellcome Library, London)
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My intention here is to blog Victorian and Edwardian portraits, usually of those with beards. This qualifies…sort of. 😉