Carte de visite portrait depicting Eli Bowen seated with his wife and child in a studio interior setting. Bowen was a well-known nineteenth-century sideshow performer often exhibited as the “Legless Wonder.”

The reverse reads “Eli Bowen, Wife and Child. A. Newman, Photographer, Ground Floor Skylight, 228 North Ninth Street, Philadelphia.” Promotional portraits such as this were widely sold to audiences during Bowen’s exhibition career.

CDV format photograph with printed studio advertisement on the reverse.