Pictured is the newest addition to the Piasa Gallery at the Alton Museum of History and Art. The museum is open Wednesday through Sunday. Appropriately Robert Wadlow — the “Gentle Giant” who ...

14 min to read They called him the Gentle Giant. At 8 feet ... treated him like a human being,” said Brian Combs of the Alton Museum of History and Art, which has a display dedicated to Wadlow.

The giant grade school boy sported size 17 shoes ... some of which can be viewed at a display devoted to his memory in Alton's Museum of History and Art. An impressive life size statue outside ...

“Robert Wadlow, Alton’s young giant, is ill at a hotel in Mannistee ... local historian and board member at the Alton Museum of History and Art. “He had many wonderful experiences.” ...

But he only attended college for a year — by 1937, word had gotten out about the Alton Giant, and the Ringling Brothers Barnum ... Life-size statue of Robert Wadlow across the street from the Alton ...

Robert Pershing Wadlow, also known as "The Alton Giant," was born on Feb. 22, 1918. If he was still living, Wadlow's 100th birthday would have been this Thursday. Wadlow's size, a world record ...