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A man with two heads |
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A performer with hands and feet deformities. Wonder if he had crabs. |
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A woman with mammothly enlarged feet and another with no arms |
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Alice E. Doherty suffered from a birth defect causing uncontrollable
hair growth and was commonly known as “The Minnesota Woolly
Baby”
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Artoria Gibbons, “The Tattooed Woman”— considered a 'freak' by 1919 when she started performing
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The pinhead Twins Jenny Lee Snow and Elvira Snow: Pip and Flip |
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Ella Harper, or “The Camel Girl” More |
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Isaac W. Sprague, or “The Living Skeleton” |
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John Jennings, a world-renowned strongman known as “The Modern Samson” |
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Lucia Zarate, 18 when this photo was taken, was the smallest person to have ever lived. She weighed around 4 pounds. |
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Myrtle Corbin, known as “The Four-Legged Woman” |
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“The Elastic-Skin Man” — there is always one of them in each of those shows |
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The Legless Acrobat with his family...looking like a young Mark Twain |
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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
Those sideshow boxers
And finally Koo Koo The Bad Girl who bore an uncanny resemblance to
Rachel Dratch
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Sweet. Will sure check them out. Thanx for the thought.
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