File talk:MacAskill with Tom Thumb.jpg

Photograph is not of McCaskill ?[edit]

The giant depicted in the photograph that appears on this page is not Angus McCaskill. Rather it is Monsieur E. Bihin, known as the French or Belgian Giant, who appeared at Phineas Barnum's American Museum in New York City from the 1840s to the 1860s. General Tom Thumb was also displayed at Barnum's American Museum and it was commonplace for Barnum to show the midgets walking around and under the legs of the various giants in the museum there, as this photograph suggests. Visual corroboration that the giant is indeed Bihin is available on page 175 of the book "P.T. Barnum, America's Greatest Showman" by the Kunhardts, published by Knopf in 1995. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 69.121.72.176 (talk) 01:35, 9 April 2010 (UTC)[reply]

I had a look at thetallestman.com and there is certainly some doubt. I will remove the photo and post a note at the image's talk page. Ben Mac Dui 09:51, 10 April 2010 (UTC)[reply]