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Virtual Midway!
Albinos
Armless Wonders
- Armless Boy
- Frances
O'Conner
Armless wonders like Frances O'Conner were a mainstay of sideshows.
Bearded Ladies
Beyond Description!
- Eko and Iko
- The
Mule-Faced Woman
Grace McDaniels and her son, Bob - Three-Breasted Woman
Circassian Beauties
Fat Ladies
- Dolly Dimples (Celesta Geyer)
- Big Princess Lulu
- Jolly Ethel
- Fat Lady in the Mirror
- Bathing Beauty
- Midget Fat Girl
- Fat Potpourri
Fat Men
Freak Animals
"Freaks" (Tod Browning)
- Freaks Lobby Card
- Prince
Randian & Johnny Eck
Relaxing on the set of "Freaks"
Giants
- The
Fischers: The "World's Tallest Giant Couple"
They were attorneys from Florida! - Giants
Al Tomaini and Jack Earle
Jack Earle is 8' 6 1/2" tall and Al Tomaini is 8' 8" tall. A very good sideshow photograph published by Kobel of Frankfort, Indiana. - Jack Earl
- Johann Petursson
- The Shield Brothers
- Sky High and midget pal
Half-Girls
- Jeanie Tomaini, and her husband Al, "The American Giant"
- Jeanie Tomaini models the "Giant Fishing Camp" T-Shirt
- Half-Girl Frida Pushnik
- Violetta the Half-Girl
- Rose Foster
Half-Boys
- Johnny
Eck--The Half Boy!
Balimore's own Johnny Eck with his brother Robert. - Wesley Upperman
Living Torsos
Lobster People
Midgets
- "It's
A Small World"
Lobby Card from the 1950 film . Starring real-life midget Paul Dale. Don't miss his great scene with the Circus Fat Woman! - "Sky
High" and Midget Pal
From the Kobel Collection, the midget is from "Terror of Tiny Town" - Arabic Midget Penglima Diki Diki
- Midget Prince Dennis and Lady Ethal
- Midgets Jack & Bill
Missing Links & Monkey People
Pickled Punks
Shocked & Amazed!
- Jim Rose Straitjacket Escape!
- Shocked
& Amazed Volume 5 Cover Art
Jim Rose by sideshow banner artist Mark Frierson
Showmen & Sideshows
- Bobby Reynolds: The Greatest Showman in the World
- Black
Sideshow Performers
Stereogram taken at the Hagenbeck Wallace Circus, Meadville, June 11, 1937. - Hunt
Brothers Sideshow
Featuring "Professor Benny the Magician"! - Joe
Hilton Side Show
Talker and acts on stage doing outside bally while with the W.G. Wade Shows circa 1935, from the Kobel collection
Siamese Twins
- Daisy
and Violet Hilton
Siamese twins from San Antonio, Texas, they were both accomplished vocalists and pianists. - Betty Lou Williams
- Conjoined Infants
Strange Limbs
- Frank Lentini: The 3-Legged Man
- Frank
Lentini pitch book
- The
Crawfish Boy
- Sealo the Seal Boy
- Sealo in his later years
Sword Swallowers
- Capt.
Don Leslie
A tattooed man and sword swallower, he is one of the true marvels of the sawdust trail.
Tattooed People
Working Acts
Jake
the Alligator Man
Sticker
Jake the Alligator Man's Dinner?
The
Peerless Prodigies of Physical Phenomena
Barnum Freaks Poster
The
Elephant Skin Girl
Susie Vogel
