Fat Folk

Professional Fat Folk of an earlier age lived to astound a public for whom not having enough to eat was a real possibility, and even a commonplace.
From the 18th Century to the beginning of the 20th Century being fat was a sign of health and prosperity.
Seemingly devouring a constant plentitude of food that their audiences may not have had, the showbiz of girth and jiggle was a universal attraction in carnival sideshows, dime museums and circuses.
Today Morbid Obesity is considered a disease, very much a phenomenon of the western world, and yet as American as apple pie washed down with a six-pack of Pepsi Cola.
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Performers in this category
- Ada Briggs
- Alice From Dallas
- Alice Dunbar
- Alice Wade
- Alpine
- Anna Bell
- Babe Alice
- Baby Ann
- Baby Anna
- Baby Betty
- Baby Bunny
- Baby Doll Waites
- Baby Irene
- Baby Jane Stark
- Baby Jane Timmons
- Baby Jane Timmons
- Baby Jim
- Baby June
- Baby Lee
- Baby Ruth Pontico
- Baby Thelma
- Baby Thelma
- Baby Viola
- Big Jim Minatra
- Billy "8 Yrs. 190 Lbs."
- Billy and Benney McCrary
- Bonita, "Midget Fat Girl"
- Bonnie Bess
- Boxing Fat Girls
- Buster & Nellie
- Captivatin' Liza
- Carrie Akers
- Jack Connor
- Jack Conway
- Dainty Dotty
- David Navarro
- Delores Connatto
- Dolly Dimples
- Happy Jack Eckert
- Ed M. Bauer
- Edward Bright
- Ella Mills
- Miss Elma
- Fat Ernst
- Farmer's Fat Family
- Fat Twins (male boxers)
- Fred Howe
- Gene
- Celeste Geyer
- Charles Greenwell
- Wallace Hagenbeck
- Madam Hall
- Hannah Battersby
- Happy Carter [blk 0-668]
- Happy Emma
- Happy Jennie
- Henry Boston Burnett
- Caton Hoblit
- Emil Hohne
- Carrie Holt
- Carry Holt
- Fat Billy House
- Robert Earl Hughes
- Ima Waddler
- Richard James
- Mrs. Owen Jenson
- Winnie Johnson
- Flora May King Johnson
- Jolly Babe
- Jolly Bonita
- Jolly Emma
- Jolly Ethel
- Jolly Josephine
- Jolly Josie
- Jolly Lee
- Jolly Mazie
- Jolly Nellie
- Jolly Ollie
- Jolly Ray
- Jolly Terrel
- Jolly Trixie
- Jacob Katz
- Flora May King
- Dot Kirby
- Kitty Diamond
- Marie La Deaux
- Happy Carter Lindsey
- Lizette
- Mamie
- Marie Lil
- Mary Powers
- Mexican Rose
- Miss Jane Campbell
- Mr. & Mrs Chauncey Morlan
- Mary Morrison
- Neta Carroll
- Tiny Glen Olson
- Phil
- John Powers
- Jennie Price
- F. E. Redding
- Smiling Alice
- Ricordo Della Teresina
- Tiny Hicks
- Tiny Tina Brown
- Tom Ton
- T.A. Valenzula
- W.D. Cowan
- Waite Family
- Baby Doll Waites
- Walt Cagle
- Webb Fat Family
- Frank Williams
- Ida Williams
- Jack Wilson
- Winsome Winnie
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