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Legless

One-Legged or Legless performers displayed their prowess at living without limbs others considered necessary to surviving and making a living in the world.

Performers in this category:

Tiny LaVonda

Rose Foster

Alfred Pilgrim

Nicolai Vassilivich Kobelkoff

Eddie Gifford “One-Legged Virtuoso Cyclist”

Alvina Gibbs

Thomas Gay

Kenny Easterday

Bill Cole

Cipriano Maghanoy

Frieda Pushnik

Eli Bowen

Isaac Stake

Violetta “The Half-Woman”

Mademoiselle Gabrielle

Zandau

A.J. Murphy

Prince Randion

Edward S. Willis

Johnny Eck

Jeanie Tomaini

Walter H. Stuart

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Legless Performer At Hubert’s Museum

Added Jul 27 2025

Madame Foster, Dream Circus Sideshow

Added Jun 1 2025

Life Story of Mr. & Mrs. Al Tomaini (4 Pages)

Added Mar 19 2025

Friedrich Kistler, Limbless Musician

Added Dec 28 2024

Thomas Goy

Added Nov 4 2024

Mademoiselle Gabrielle

Added Oct 20 2024

Miss Rose Foster

Added Oct 12 2024

Harper’s Parlor Circus Songster

Added Sep 29 2024

Jeanie Tomaini & Siamese Twins’ Mother

Added Sep 8 2024

Mlle. Gabriel “The living half woman”

Added Jun 2 2024

Mlle. Gabriel “The living half woman”

Added May 12 2024

Eli Bowen Broadside, As The Wild Man

Added Sep 4 2023

Jeanie and Al Tomaini

Added Sep 3 2023

Zandou “Quarter Boy”

Added Aug 18 2023

Frieda Pushnik, 1943

Added Nov 25 2022

Frieda Pushnik Signing Her Name, 1946

Added Nov 25 2022

Frieda Pushnik Snapshot, In Front of Ripley’s Odditorium, 1937

Added Nov 25 2022

Frieda Pushnik Snapshot, With Unidentified Man In Boat

Added Nov 25 2022

Frieda Pushnik Snapshot, Outdoors, With Her Mother and Other Women

Added Nov 25 2022

Frieda Pushnik Snapshot, Outdoors, With Unidentified Man

Added Nov 25 2022

Frieda Pushnik Snapshot, Outdoors

Added Nov 25 2022

Snapshot of Frieda Pushnik & Her Mother Outdoors

Added Nov 24 2022

Frieda Pushnik & Her Mother, 1947

Added Nov 24 2022

Frieda Pushnik, 1945

Added Nov 24 2022

Frieda Pushnik & Mother, 1937

Added Nov 24 2022

Frieda Pushnik, Signed

Added Nov 24 2022

Edward Boström, Legless Man With Prosthetic Legs

Added Oct 9 2022

Carl Norwood “Frog Boy” & Dick Hilburn “The Half-Man”

Added Oct 8 2022

Carl Norwood and Dick Hilburn

Added Oct 8 2022

Eli Bowen, Wife and Son

Added Sep 25 2022

Eli Bowen And Manager at Norman’s Museum

Added Sep 25 2022

Master Eli Bowen

Added Sep 18 2022

Eli Bowen with his Wife

Added Sep 18 2022

Eli Bowen, Wife and Son

Added Sep 18 2022

Eli Bowen “Legless Man”

Added Sep 18 2022

Eli Bowen And Manager at Norman’s Museum

Added Sep 18 2022

Betty Williams/Freda Pushnik at Ripley’s Odditorium, 1933

Added Sep 4 2022

Unidentified Limbless Boy

Added Sep 3 2022

Tripp & Bowen, Bicycle Riders

Added Sep 3 2022

Freida Pushnik with her Dog

Added Aug 13 2022

Johanna, The German “Living Shop Window Bust”

Added Oct 9 2021

Freda Pushnik Sideshow Banner and Talker

Added Oct 4 2020

Freda Pushnik Sideshow Banner and Talker

Added Oct 4 2020

Eli Bowen “Legless Man”

Added May 17 2020

Unidentified Limbless Dwarf

Added May 11 2020

Benjamin Franklin “Armless & Legless Soldier”

Added May 11 2020

Hoyt Shoemaker, Armless & Legless Boy

Added May 11 2020

Violetta, Armless & Legless Girl

Added Jul 28 2019

A.A. Pilgrim, “PERSEVERANCE”

Added May 27 2019

Mlle. Gabrielle, Living Half Lady Business/Calling Card

Added May 12 2019

Mademoiselle Gabriele “The Half Lady”

Added Apr 29 2018

Eli Bowen

Eli Bowen, Wife, Children and Pet Goat

Added Jan 7 2018

Little Donnie “The Upside Down Boy”

Added Feb 5 2017

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John Hix’s “Strange As It Seems” Cartoon of Prince Randion

Added Jan 31 2017

Wesley Upperman “Half-Boy” Bannerline on Biller Brothers Circus Sideshow

Added Nov 5 2016

Armless Man, Cipriano Maghanoy, of Sigijor, P.I.

Added Jul 10 2016

Prohibition Turns Saloon “Globe Cafe” Into A Dime Museum

Added Jul 10 2016

Issac Stake, Age 30

Added May 29 2016

Issac Stake, Age 33

Added May 29 2016

Issac Stake

Added May 29 2016

Wampus Wagel “Cherokee Indian Half Man”

Added Apr 16 2016

Barto Rimel “Legless Wonder,” “Pity Card”

Added Apr 14 2016

Ida Campbell/Claire Laroche “Half-Lady”

Added Mar 19 2016

The Philipino Wonder

Added Mar 19 2016

Genie Weeks [Jeanie Tomaini] (4-Pages)

Added Aug 29 2015

The World’s Museum & Theatre

Added Jul 12 2015

Violetta

Added Apr 26 2015

Violetta “The Half-Woman”

Added Apr 8 2015

Violetta “The Half-Woman”

Added Apr 8 2015

Mdlle. Gabrielle

Added Apr 7 2015

Mlle. Gabriele “The Only Living Half Lady”

Added Apr 7 2015

Miss Gabriele “Die Englische Halbdame”

Added Apr 5 2015

Mdlle. Gabrielle “The World’s Wonder”

Added Apr 5 2015

Cyclone Breese

Added Apr 5 2015

Bernice Smith, Living Half Girl

Added Apr 2 2015

Jeanie & Al Tomaini

Added Apr 2 2015

Vivante La Femme-Buste

Added Apr 1 2015

Roko “Frog-Man”

Added Mar 31 2015

Legless Woman Dances On Hands

Added Mar 30 2015

Wesley Upperman

Added Mar 30 2015

Zandau

Added Mar 30 2015

Souvenir of Zandau “The Quarter Boy”

Added Mar 30 2015

Zandou “The Quarter Boy”

Added Mar 29 2015

Bill Cole “Quarter Man”

Added Mar 29 2015

Raymond Jr. “Half Boy”

Added Mar 29 2015

W.H. Stuart & Family

Added Jan 20 2015

Johnny Eck & Friends

Added Jan 6 2015

Johnny Eck at Birthday Party

Added Jan 5 2015

Johnny Eck & Friends

Added Jan 5 2015

[Johnny] Eck[hardt Bros.] Miniature Train Business Card

Added Jan 5 2015

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Prince Randion Newspaper Ad 1907

Added Jan 4 2015

Smiling Johnny Eck on his doorstep

Added Oct 26 2014

Johnny Eck & Major

Added Oct 26 2014

Johnny Eck & Friend

Added Oct 26 2014

Johnny Eck Passport Photo

Added Oct 26 2014

Johnny Eck & Robert Eck On a Ship

Added Oct 26 2014

Johnny Eck and Ripley’s Attendents

Added Oct 25 2014

Johnny Eck & Robert Eck

Added Oct 25 2014

johnny Eck & Robert Eck

Added Oct 25 2014

Johnny Eck & Robert Eck

Added Oct 25 2014

Johnny Eck & Friends

Added Oct 24 2014

Johnny Eck & Friend

Added Oct 19 2014

Johnny Eck Pitchbook Repro (4 Pages)

Added Oct 19 2014

Johnny Eck Pitchbook (4 Pages)

Added Oct 18 2014

A.J. Murphy, Quadruple Prosthetic

Added Jun 28 2014

A.J. Murphy, Quadruple Prosthetic

Added Jun 28 2014

C.H. Townsend “Living Wonder”

Added Jun 28 2014

Martha Morris

Added Jun 28 2014

Walter H. Stuart

Added Jun 28 2014

Walter H. Stuart

Added Jun 28 2014

Walter H. Stuart

Added Jun 28 2014

The Harper Brothers– One-Legged Brother Act by Eisenmann

Added Jun 26 2014

Three Limbless Chums

Added Jun 26 2014

Miss Rose Foster

Added Jun 26 2014

The Philipino Wonder

Added Jun 26 2014

A. A. Pilgrim, Armless-Legless Shootist

Added Jun 26 2014

Alfred “Willie” Pilgrim

Added Jun 26 2014

John Rose, Legless Goat Cart Driver

Added Jun 26 2014

Freda K. Pushnik, “Photo and Story”

Added Apr 26 2014

Biography of Prince Randion (4 Pages)

Added Apr 26 2014

“My Life’s History, Miss Gabriele” (Four Pages)

Added Apr 26 2014

“The Life of A.J. Murphy” Pitchbook (12 Pages)

Added Apr 16 2014

Free Images

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