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Performers in this category:

E.J. Perry

Calvin Byrd

Barney Nelson

Adolph and Rudolph

Nabor Feliz

Rattlesnake Pete

Walter K. Sibley

The Cardiff Giant

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MUSÉE GREVIN Les Glaces DÉFORMANTES

Added Jul 27 2025

Hananuma Masakichi Japanese Statue Art Saloon Token

Added Jul 5 2025

Kid Canfield Pitchbook (54 Pages)

Added May 25 2025

Mexico Exhibit at Egyptian Hall, 1823 (50 Pages)

Added May 25 2025

E.J. Perry Silhouettist Silouette

Added Dec 28 2024

Grand & Matchless Exhibition (Wax Show)

Added Dec 28 2024

The Sponge Man

Added Oct 20 2024

Eden Musee Thomas Edison, Lloyd George Wax Figures Destroyed In Fire

Added May 27 2024

Eden Musée “Pick Pocket Group”

Added May 12 2024

Eden Musee Rebus Card

Added May 12 2024

James Zaharee Souvenir Rice Card from Ripley’s Odditorium, San Diego

Added May 7 2023

Adolph-Rudolph Bogus Siamese Twins Boudoir Card

Added Apr 9 2022

Anna-John Budd Single-O in Australia

Added Apr 3 2022

Wortley Royal Waxwork

Added Jan 10 2022

Adolph-Rudolph Boudoir Card

Added Oct 3 2020

Adolph-Rudolph, In The debris

Added Oct 3 2020

Adolph & Rudolph on the Backlot

Added Oct 3 2020

Adolph & Rudolph, [BOGUS] Siamese Twins

Added Oct 3 2020

Adolph & Rudolph in Capes and Top Hats

Added Oct 3 2020

Mysteria (Spidora) Illusion

Added Oct 3 2020

Nabor Felix “Lightning Sculptor”

Added Sep 27 2020

E.L. Blystone’s Ripley’s Odditorium Microscopy Writing for 1933

Added May 24 2020

Blystone, Microscopy Writer Advert for Ripley’s Odditorium, 1933 Century of Progress

Added May 10 2020

Cover of The Nelson Supply House, List No. 11

The Nelson Supply House, Mummified Curiosities, New Latest List No. 11 (16 Pages)

Added Jul 28 2019

Wood’s Museum Handbill, 1873

Added Mar 10 2019

The Onondaga Giant [Cardiff Giant]

Added Mar 3 2019

An Incredible Nelson Supply Company Giant Mummy in Nebraska

Added Jul 22 2018

Roving Frank’s Band of English Romany Gypsies Tradecard

Added Feb 7 2017

The Milton Sisters, Fake “Siamese Twins”

Added Jan 7 2017

James W. Zaharee Rice Writing Souvenir, 1935

Added Oct 6 2016

Homma Japanese Rice Writer Souvenir, 1934 Odditorium

Added Oct 6 2016

James W. Zaharee Souvenir Rice Writing From Ripley’s Odditorium, 1935

Added Oct 6 2016

James W. Zaharee Souvenir Rice Writing From Ripley’s Odditorium, 1935

Added Oct 6 2016

James W. Zaharee Souvenir Rice Writer Card, 1936

Added Oct 3 2016

James W. Zaharee Souvenir Rice Writer Card for Johnnie Fern McDill

Added Sep 25 2016

Bly Rice Writer from Ripley’s Odditorium, Chicago, 1932

Added Sep 25 2016

Zaharee Rice Writer Souvenir from Ripley’s Odditorium, Dallas, Texas

Added Sep 25 2016

“Mummified Curiosities” The Nelson Supply House, The New Latest List No. 10 (16 Pages)

Added Sep 11 2016

English Baby Incubators Show “Child Life Section”

Added Jan 4 2016

Chatham Museum Handbill

Added Oct 17 2015

Barney Nelson, Armless Artist

Added Sep 8 2015

E.M. Worth’s Man Mummy From Thebes

Added Sep 8 2015

Great Onondaga Giant

Added Jul 19 2015

“What Is It?” Feegee Mermaid!

Added May 4 2015

Ajeeb “The Chess Playing Automaton”

Added May 3 2015

Hungarian Gipsy Band at Eden Musee

Added May 3 2015

Eden Musee Facade Fold-Out Card

Added May 3 2015

Eden Musee Tradecard

Added May 3 2015

Ka-We-Ba Amazon Giantess

Added May 3 2015

Ripley’s “Believe-It-Or-Not” Roadshow Truck

Added Feb 28 2015

Interior “Ripley’s” Odditorium Atlantic City

Added Feb 28 2015

Atlantic City “Ripley’s” Odditorium

Added Feb 28 2015

Dr. Warner Presents Waino and Plutano “Wild Men Of Borneo

Added Jan 18 2015

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Whale Show with Madam Sirwell’s Flea Circus

Added Oct 12 2014

Marguerette Clarke “Parasitic Siamese Twin”

Added Aug 23 2014

Dr. Walford Bodie

Added Jul 26 2014

Eden Musee Ticket Seller

Added Jul 25 2014

Carnival Hypnotist

Added Jul 25 2014

The Dope Fiend’s Dream, Scene 1

Added Jul 13 2014

Dope Fiends’ Dream, Scene 2

Added Jul 13 2014

Chinese Slave Girls

Added Jul 13 2014

Chinatown “Drug Shop”

Added Jul 13 2014

Carl “A Student of The Unknown”

Added Jul 13 2014

Carl “A Student of The Unknown”

Added Jul 13 2014

Texas Jack “One-Armed Whittler”

Added Jun 26 2014

The Elephant Hotel

Added Jun 26 2014

The Colossal Elephant

Added Jun 26 2014

The Elephant Hotel in Coney Island

Added Jun 26 2014

Dreamland Eden Musee Pass

Added Jun 26 2014

“Gang Busters” Show at the 1939 New York World’s Fair

Added Jun 24 2014

The Cardiff Giant: A Few Facts Concerning Its History (4 pages)

Added Jun 21 2014

Indian Man With Second Face on Stomach

Added Apr 14 2014

Ferris Wheel & Banners

Added Apr 14 2014

Museum of Anatomy Truck Show

Added Apr 13 2014

Two-Headed Calf, 1904

Added Apr 13 2014

Nabor Feliz Netzahualt “Clay Sculptor”

Added Apr 13 2014

Boardwalk Show of “PAULA SNAKE DEN”

Added Apr 13 2014

Sea Monster Ticket

Added Apr 6 2014

Ferocious Devil Fish Attraction

Added Apr 6 2014

Bogus Bearded Woman & Cone-Hatted Partner

Added Mar 30 2014

Tintype of Man Pretending to be a Bearded Woman

Added Mar 30 2014

Letterhead from Dufour & Rogers, NY World’s Fair 1939

Added Mar 23 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