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Edouard Beaupre, the Willowbunch giant (1881 - 1904), giant and circus performer, and part of Barnum and Baileys circus. Named here in the Tatler as Arthur Beaupre, the Montana Giant
The Pain-Proof Man & Captain Ringman Jack - Ripley sArthur Plumhoff The Human Pincushion - The Pain-Proof Man (left) and Captain Ringman Jack, who lifted weights through holes through his breasts
The bearded lady: Miss Annie Jones 1897Annie Jones Elliot (1865 - 1902), a " freak" and part of the " Greatest Show on Earth". The accompanying article describes her as " in every respect the best of the "
The bearded lady: Miss Annie Jones 1898Annie Jones Elliot (1865 - 1902) also known as " the Bearded Lady" toured with the showman P. T. Barnum as a circus attraction. 1898
The bearded lady: Miss Annie JonesAnnie Jones Elliot (1865 - 1902) also known as " the Bearded Lady" toured with the showman P. T. Barnum as a circus attraction
German Fairground with Sideshows - Mainz, Germany. The stalls include the chance to see a Giant Lady, a South sea Islander, an electric shick machine and a balloon seller. Date: 1899
Suffragette Women Wear Trousers. Man in a skirt, woman in trousers, this is what happens when lovely woman gets the vote, The men will look such freaks, She doesn t want his hat and coat
Alice Nikitina & Serge Lifar in 1930 RevueBallet dancers Nikitina and Lifar performing in Charles Cochrans 1930 Revue. Seen here in The Freaks for which Lord Berners wrote teh music. 1930
Ripleys Believe-it-or-not - Anato Hayes - OdditoriumRipleys Believe-it-or-not - Human Automobile Tyre - Wilber H. Roden ( Edema ) is inflated with an ordinary air pump to three times his normal size! Odditorium at The New York Worlds Fair of 1940
The Last Aztecs - Maximo and BartoloTwo sideshow exhibits, Maximo and Bartola, both sufferes of microcephaly, who were billed by freakshow promoters as The Last Aztecs
Extraordinary exhibition of ScapiglioneAdvertising flyer for an Extraordinary Exhibition at the Saville House, Leicester Square, every day from Ten o Clock till One, and from Two till Ten. Scapiglione
The Freaks at the New Theatre by Claude Shepperson, 1918The drop-scene of The Freaks, at the New Theatre, a comedy by Sir Arthur Pinero staged from 1917 to 1918. Date: 1918
Lion headed boyBoy with the lions head, Reynolds Exhibition, 1901 Date: 1901
Chas. H. Yale and Sidney R. Ellis The evil eye, or The further funny freaks of Nid and the continued comical contortions of Nod. Date c1902
Coming! Prof. HB Reynolds the world renowned sorcerer, necromancer, and magician will appear in Freaks.... Date 188-?
Dime Museum, 2 of 2The interior of a Dime Museum in the Bowery, New York: the audience stares with curiosity at a bearded lady, a very thin man and a giantess among other human oddities