Freak Shows of the Past — One

A man with two heads

 A performer with hands and feet deformities. Wonder if he had crabs.

A woman with mammothly enlarged feet and another with no arms

Alice E. Doherty suffered from a birth defect causing uncontrollable hair growth
and was commonly known as “The Minnesota Woolly Baby”

Artoria Gibbons, “The Tattooed Woman”— considered a 'freak' by 1919 
when she started performing  

The pinhead Twins Jenny Lee Snow and Elvira Snow: Pip and Flip

Ella Harper, or “The Camel Girl”
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Isaac W. Sprague, or “The Living Skeleton”

John Jennings, a world-renowned strongman known as “The Modern Samson”

Lucia Zarate, 18 when this photo was taken, was the smallest person to have
ever lived. She weighed around 4 pounds.

Myrtle Corbin, known as “The Four-Legged Woman”

“The Elastic-Skin Man” — there is always one of them in each of those shows

The Legless Acrobat with his family...looking like a young Mark Twain

Annie Jones is one of the most famous bearded ladies of all time. Cute

Unzie the Albino

Madam Gustika of the Duckbill tribe smoking a pipe with an extended mouthpiece
for her large lips during a show in a N.Y circus on 12 April 1930

A freak show in Rutland, Vermont in 1941

The famous Coney Island on-going freak show

 

Sideshow boxers

And finally Koo Koo The Bad Girl who bore an uncanny resemblance to 
Rachel Dratch

If you enjoyed this photo-article, check the sequel on here: Freak Shows of the Past — Two.



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