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This category represents those performers and attractions not simply defined, whose physiognomy is unique or rare enough to be nearly uncategorizable.

Performers in this category:

Paul Whitaker “Eye Popper”

Lewis Love

Clarence Dale “The Big Head Boy”

Gaddah, “The American Elephant Man”

Robert Owen Melvin

William Durks

Johnny Eck

Grace McDaniel

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Dolly Reagan at 10-in-1 Tent by Randal Levenson

Added Aug 16 2025

Four Pages From Ambroise Paré’s work “Prodigies and Monsters”

Added Feb 3 2025

Wild Woman “Florida Demon” Handbill

Added Jan 7 2024

Hoppie & Mignon “World’s Strangest Family”

Added Oct 9 2021

Hippo, The Man From Mars

Added Oct 4 2020

Louis Love Carnival Sideshow Showfront with Banner and ticket-taker

Louis Love Single-O Showfront With Banner & Ticket-Taker

Added Sep 20 2020

Laurello and His Dog Frisco Write To F.W. Miller

Added May 25 2018

Lourello “The Man With A Revolving Head” At Coney Island

Added May 19 2018

W.T. Livingston, Jr. “The Two-Faced Boy”

Added Sep 25 2016

Grace McDaniel, ca. 1928

Added Mar 21 2016

Grace McDaniel and Son Elmer, ca. 1928

Added Mar 21 2016

Siah Khan

Added Aug 23 2015

Siah Khan

Added Aug 23 2015

Sigh Khan, Iranian Giant

Siah Khan

Added Aug 23 2015

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Gaddah “The American Elephant Man”

Added Feb 18 2015

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Gaddah, The American “Elephant Man”

Added Feb 18 2015

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Clarence Dale “The Big Head Boy”

Added Jan 20 2015

Clarence Dale “The Big Head Boy”

Added Jan 20 2015

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Bob Melvin, “The Man with Two Faces”

Added Oct 21 2014

Johnny Eck Pitchbook Repro (4 Pages)

Added Oct 19 2014

Johnny Eck Pitchbook (4 Pages)

Added Oct 18 2014

Bill Durks, Sitting on Stage

Added Oct 18 2014

William Durks, Portrait Behind The Scenes

Added Oct 18 2014

William Durks, A Portrait Behind The Scenes

Added Oct 18 2014

William Durks, Behind The scenes

Added Oct 18 2014

William Durks Pitchcard (Version 3)

Added Oct 18 2014

William Durks Pitchcard (Version 2)

Added Oct 18 2014

William Durks Pitchcard (Version 1)

Added Oct 18 2014

Grace McDaniel (in Color)

Added Oct 17 2014

Pop-Eye Perry

Added Oct 10 2014

Grace McDaniel & Son

Added Oct 5 2014

Chinese Man With Horn

Added Oct 5 2014

Grace McDaniel

Added Oct 5 2014

Grace McDaniel

Added Oct 5 2014

Grace McDaniel & Son

Added Oct 5 2014

Grace McDaniel & Son

Added Oct 4 2014

Grace McDaniel & Son

Added Oct 3 2014

Jeremiah Diale “The Horned Man”

Added Oct 2 2014

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Robert Ripley Advertises Old Gold Cigarettes

Added August 3, 2025

Dolly Dutton’s Sheet Music

Added May 31, 2025

Wonderland Circus Sideshow, Coney Island

Added December 31, 2024

1893 Newspaper Advertisement For The Tocci Brothers and Chevalier Cliquot

Added March 30, 2024

1893 Newspaper Advertisement For The Tocci Brothers and Chevalier Cliquot

Added March 30, 2024

HORROR STORIES Pulp Cover Two-Headed Girl (December 1940)

Added January 28, 2024

Baby Irene “Fat Lady” Cashes In On Laughs (1950)

Added December 26, 2023

1937 Philadelphia Store Show Facade

Added July 22, 2023

Mr. & Mrs. Chauncy Morlan at Huber’s 14th Street Museum

Added July 21, 2023

Hulett Pest Control Spokesmen, Dwarfs John and Greg Rice

Added January 31, 2023