Oddity Collection

Mitchells Corn Palace, Mitchell, South Dakota, USA
Mitchells Corn Palace, The Worlds Only Corn Palace at Mitchell, South Dakota, USA. The card notes that this building is redecorated annually at a cost of $10

Russian - Zascha The Colossal Woman
Zascha - The Colossal Woman from Russia Date: circa 1910s

Giant Machnow at Taylors Depository, Pimlico, London. Feodor Machnow, (Fyodor Makhnov) was born in 1878 at the village of Kostyuks in the Ukraine

Kenya - Masai man with extended earlobe ornament (weighed to increase the distension of the skin). Date: circa 1910s

La Puerta del Diablo, Tandil, Argentina
La Puerta del Diablo (Door of the Devil) - a set of unusual rocks located in Tandil, Buenos Aires Province, Argentina. Date: circa 1905

La Piedra Movediza balancing rock, Tandil, Argentina
La Piedra Movediza was a balancing rock located in Tandil, Buenos Aires Province, Argentina. Its weight was about 300 tons

A South African Man with skin pigmentation condition
A South African Man with the skin pigmentation condition vitiligo, creating a remarkable patched appearance, captioned here as Leopard Skin (!). Date: circa 1900

La Piedra Parade (bloque erratico) en el Rio Alto Chubut
The Piedra Parade (erratic block) in the Alto Chubut River (dried-out riverbed, which has slowly eroded the base of the rock)

Hobgoblins, c. 1610
Hobgoblins - a variety of strange creatures, c.1610. Date: C.1610

Extraordinary exhibition of Scapiglione
Advertising 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

Lodge Park, Sherborne, Aldsworth, Gloucestershire
Lodge Park, near Sherborne, Aldsworth and Northleach Gloucestershire. Built as a Grandstand for observing Deer Coursing in the 17th century. Date: circa 1910s

Paris, France - General View, The Smallest House
Paris, France - The Smallest House in the city at 39 Rue du Chateau-d Eau. Date: 1897

Young Egyptian woman holding an amphora
An extremely odd artistic photographic postcard showing a young Egyptian woman holding an amphora close to her naked breast

The famous Russell Bros. in the pretentious oddity, Maids to order by Frank Dumont and Wm. F. Carrol. Date c1898

Jean Staininger, long bearded man of Braunau, shown here in all his hirsute glory

Human Curiosity - Panther Woman
24-year-old French woman - labelled as a Panther Woman due to her mottled skin. This 24 year-old lady is obviously making quite a career through her affliction. Date: circa 1910s

The wonderful American hen with three wings and four legs. The greatest living curiosity in the world, as exhibited at 26 Charing Cross Road, London

Grandville Great / Small
The great and the small

SAMUEL CHAPPEL GRATER
SAMUEL CHAPPEL a.k.a grater after his habit of grating his bread an act that was necessary due to his lack of teeth. He was a resident of Oxford

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