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“Hands denied, toes derived.” — Ann E. Leak, armless performer (1831-1879)
Devoid of hands by which he builds his marvels, the human being becomes a creature of the mind (and the foot).

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Armless Wonder Paul Desmuke and Friends

Added Jul 27 2025

Armless Wonder, Paul Desmuke in Family Portrait

Added Jul 27 2025

Yours Truly, Kittie Smith (ver. 2)

Added Jul 13 2025

Yours Truly, Kittie Smith (ver. 3)

Added Jul 13 2025

Yours Truly, Kittie Smith (ver. 1)

Added Jul 13 2025

My Life Story, Kittie Smith (ver. 5)

Added Jul 13 2025

Yours Truly, Kittie Smith (ver. 4)

Added Jul 13 2025

Kitty Smith, “My Life Story” (14 Pages)

Added Jul 13 2025

Life Story of Kitty Smith, Armless Wonder (4 Pages)

Added Jul 12 2025

Mr. Ledgwood, No Hands, No Arms, One Leg and Foot

Added Jul 6 2025

Madame Foster, Dream Circus Sideshow

Added Jun 1 2025
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Elsie-John with “Coney Island Big Circus Sideshow”

Added Jan 5 2025
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Al G. Barnes Sideshow with Desmuke & Elsie-John

Added Jan 5 2025
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Friedrich Kistler, Limbless Musician

Added Dec 28 2024
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Paul Desmuke “Armless Wonder”

Added Dec 28 2024
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Unidentified Young Woman, Truncated Arms

Added Dec 27 2024
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Androgynous Woman Without Arms

Added Dec 27 2024
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Androgynous Woman Without Arms

Added Dec 27 2024
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Thomas Goy

Added Nov 4 2024
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Joan Whisnant “Armless Girl”

Added Nov 2 2024
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Martha “The Armless Wonder” Typing

Added Oct 20 2024
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The Armless Man Shaves Himself (Charles Tripp)

Added Oct 6 2024
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Hugo Marcus “Armless Man Smokes A Cigar”

Added Oct 6 2024
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Ann E. Leak, Headshot, 1872

Added Sep 7 2024
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Ann E. Leak with “Scratch My Back” Needlepoint, ca. 1878

Added Sep 7 2024
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Miss S. Biffin

Added Jul 14 2024
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Thomas Schweicker “Armless” (1540-1602)

Added Dec 25 2023
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John Chambers “Armless Wonder” In Argentina

Added Aug 22 2023
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Chester A. Lee, Armless Child

Added Aug 20 2023
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Ann E. Leak (1885)

Added Aug 20 2023
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Robert Campbell “The Armless Wonder”

Added Jul 16 2023
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Frieda Pushnik, 1943

Added Nov 25 2022
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Frieda Pushnik Signing Her Name, 1946

Added Nov 25 2022
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Frieda Pushnik Snapshot, In Front of Ripley’s Odditorium, 1937

Added Nov 25 2022
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Frieda Pushnik Snapshot, With Unidentified Man In Boat

Added Nov 25 2022
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Frieda Pushnik Snapshot, Outdoors, With Her Mother and Other Women

Added Nov 25 2022
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Frieda Pushnik Snapshot, Outdoors, With Unidentified Man

Added Nov 25 2022
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Frieda Pushnik Snapshot, Outdoors

Added Nov 25 2022
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Snapshot of Frieda Pushnik & Her Mother Outdoors

Added Nov 24 2022
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Frieda Pushnik & Her Mother, 1947

Added Nov 24 2022
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Frieda Pushnik, 1945

Added Nov 24 2022
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Frieda Pushnik & Mother, 1937

Added Nov 24 2022
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Frieda Pushnik, Signed

Added Nov 24 2022
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Frances O’Connor, Sells Floto Circus

Added Nov 24 2022
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Barney Nelson

Added Oct 25 2022
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John P. King “The Armless Wonder”

Added Oct 24 2022
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Willie Kaak “Fusskünstler”

Added Oct 24 2022
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Frances Belle O’Connor

Added Oct 23 2022
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Frances O’Connor, 1927

Added Oct 23 2022
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Frances O’Connor

Added Oct 23 2022
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Frances O’Connor, With Red Lipstick

Added Oct 23 2022
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Frances O’Connor, 1936

Added Oct 23 2022
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Frances O’Connor (?)

Added Oct 23 2022
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Frances O’Connor

Added Oct 23 2022
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Frances O’Connor, 1944

Added Oct 23 2022
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W.C. Williams “One Arm One Man Band”

Added Oct 9 2022
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John Chambers, Armless Man, Shaving

Added Oct 9 2022
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Edward Boström, Legless Man With Prosthetic Legs

Added Oct 9 2022
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John T. Owens, and Daughter

Added Oct 9 2022
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John T. Owens and Wife Matilda

Added Oct 9 2022
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Owens “The Armless Musician” at A Street Fair

Added Oct 8 2022
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John T. Owens and Wife Matilda

Added Oct 8 2022
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John T. Owens “Armless Musician”

Added Oct 8 2022
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Jim Elroy “Armless Trumpeter”

Added Oct 8 2022
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Jim Elroy “Armless Trumpeter”

Added Oct 8 2022
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Captain Lewando Baldwin

Added Oct 8 2022
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Lewando Baldwin

Added Oct 8 2022
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W.C. Williams “One-Armed One Man Band”

Added Sep 26 2022
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W.C. Williams

Added Sep 26 2022
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W.C. Williams “One-Armed One Man Band”

Added Sep 26 2022
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Charles Tripp, 1924

Added Sep 26 2022
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Charles Tripp

Added Sep 26 2022
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Lewando Baldwin & Wife

Added Sep 26 2022
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Charles B. Tripp, June 10, 1907

Added Sep 26 2022
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Charles B. Tripp

Added Sep 25 2022
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Charles B. Tripp

Added Sep 25 2022
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Charles Tripp, Shaving, ca. 1920

Added Sep 25 2022
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Charles Tripp, Shaving, circa 1920

Added Sep 25 2022
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C.H. Unthan, 82 Years Old At The Typewriter

Added Sep 25 2022
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C.H. Unthan “Armless Boy”

Added Sep 25 2022
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C.H. Unthan “Armless”

Added Sep 25 2022
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Charles Tripp, Standing With His Topcoat On, 1893

Added Sep 25 2022
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Charles Tripp, With Knife & Fork, 1890

Added Sep 25 2022
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Charles Tripp, With Knife & Fork

Added Sep 25 2022
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Charles B. Tripp, Shirtless, 1888

Added Sep 25 2022
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Charles B. Tripp “Armlose Wunder” 1901 Barnum Bailey Tour, Austria

Added Sep 25 2022
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Charles Tripp, 1887

Added Sep 25 2022
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Charles Tripp, 1885

Added Sep 25 2022
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Charles B. Tripp, ca. 1915

Added Sep 25 2022
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Betty Williams/Freda Pushnik at Ripley’s Odditorium, 1933

Added Sep 4 2022
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Miss Millie Howe “Armless Lady”

Added Sep 3 2022
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Tripp & Bowen, Bicycle Riders

Added Sep 3 2022
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Unidentified Armless Woman, Needlepointing

Added Aug 28 2022
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Mlle. Marie “The Armless Girl”

Added Aug 14 2022
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Freida Pushnik with her Dog

Added Aug 13 2022
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Momence Freakshow-Store Show

Added Apr 23 2022
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Baneeta West “Armless Girl Musician”

Added Jan 1 2022
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Ann E. Leak, 1867

Added Oct 24 2021
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Ann E. Leak Thompson Death Card, 1899

Added Oct 24 2021
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Ann E. Leak Thompson, 1876

Added Oct 24 2021
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Freda Pushnik Sideshow Banner and Talker

Added Oct 4 2020
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Freda Pushnik Sideshow Banner and Talker

Added Oct 4 2020
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Mary Belle “Armless Artist”

Added Sep 27 2020
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Frank E. Fithen “The Armless Auto Speed KIng”

Added May 17 2020
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Frank E. Fithen “Armless Cyclist”

Added May 17 2020
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Frank Fithen “The Armless Auto Speed KIng”

Added May 17 2020
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Frank E. Fithen “The Armless Auto Speed King”

Added May 17 2020
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Frank Fithen “The Armless Auto Speed KIng”

Added May 17 2020
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Benjamin Franklin “Armless & Legless Soldier”

Added May 11 2020
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Hoyt Shoemaker, Armless & Legless Boy

Added May 11 2020
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Paul Desmuke with straight razor in his toes

Added May 11 2020
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Paul Desmuke Writes With His Toes

Added May 11 2020
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Rosa Lee “Armless Wonder” (Handcolored Photo)

Added Aug 4 2019
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Rosa Lee “Armless Wonder” Pitchbook [Four Pages, v.2]

Added Aug 4 2019
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Violetta, Armless & Legless Girl

Added Jul 28 2019
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A.A. Pilgrim, “PERSEVERANCE”

Added May 27 2019
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Sartori “The Armless Violin Player”

Added May 19 2019
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Paul Desmuke On The Backlot

Added May 6 2019
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Paul Desmuke, Writing, Displaying His Violin and Guitar On A Postcard Sent To His Sister

Added May 5 2019
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Paul Desmuke, Writing With His Toes

Added May 5 2019
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Paul Desmuke Single-O Tent Show

Added Mar 31 2019
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Paul Desmuke as Body Double For Lon Chaney In The Film “The Unknown”

Added Mar 31 2019
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Old Plantation Minstrel Showfront with Merey “The Armless Wonder” and Her Father

Added Mar 3 2019
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Merey “The Armless Wonder” and Her Father In Front Of Their Showfront

Added Mar 3 2019
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Cipriano Maghanoy, Shooting A Rifle Armlessly

Added May 19 2018
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Rosa Lee “Armless Wonder” Pitchbook (Four Pages)

Added Apr 29 2018
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John Hix’s “Strange As It Seems” Cartoon of Prince Randion

Added Jan 31 2017
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Singer’s Congress of Human Freaks Letterhead

Added Nov 6 2016
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Armless Man, Cipriano Maghanoy, of Sigijor, P.I.

Added Jul 10 2016
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Charles Felu, Armless Artist Painting A Self Portrait

Added May 29 2016
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Paul Desmuke, Shaving With A Straight-Razor Held In His Foot

Added May 29 2016
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Lewando Baldwin by Charles Eisenmann

Added Mar 19 2016
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The Philipino Wonder

Added Mar 19 2016
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The Autobiography of Miss Ann E. Leak (40 Pages)

Added Mar 19 2016
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Martha Morris, “Armless Artist” As A Young Girl

Added Mar 19 2016
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Teddy Reed’s Variety and Minstrel Show Bally Platform

Added Jan 4 2016
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Freddie Esele at Coney Island

Added Nov 1 2015
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Barney Nelson, Armless Artist

Added Sep 8 2015
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Martha Morris “The Armless Wonder”

Added Jul 26 2015
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Barnum & Bailey’s Sideshow and Museum Bannerline

Added Jul 25 2015
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Ray Myers

Added Jul 25 2015
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Sam Houston’s Museum Beautiful

Added Jul 12 2015
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Violetta

Added Apr 26 2015
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Violetta “The Half-Woman”

Added Apr 8 2015
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Violetta “The Half-Woman”

Added Apr 8 2015
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Georgia Wilkinson “Armless Artist”

Added Apr 5 2015
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W.H. Stuart & Family

Added Jan 20 2015
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Paul Desmuke Inside Driver Brothers Tent

Added Jan 18 2015
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Prince Randion Newspaper Ad 1907

Added Jan 4 2015
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Charles Tripp, Unusual Pose

Added Oct 12 2014
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The Theatrum at Burnell & Prescott’s Dime Museum with Ann Leake “Armless Girl” and Issac Sprague “Human Skeleton” (4 Pages)

Added Sep 28 2014
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Kitty Smith “Armless Girl”

Added Sep 12 2014
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Armless Man in Tux

Added Aug 27 2014
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Phénomène Musical

Added Aug 12 2014
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Painting by John Huber

Added Jul 12 2014

Free Images

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

Foy Large & Frank Morgner

Added October 24, 2021