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Missing limbs through accident, or birth, they learn to walk on hands, roll cigarettes using only their mouths, displaying calligraphic precision with feet. They entertain us with their skills in making what’s missing less important than what’s there. Most incredible are the Human Torsos, or Half-Boys & Half-Girls, those without either arms or legs.

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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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Friedrich Kistler, Limbless Musician

Added Dec 28 2024
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Unidentified Young Woman, Truncated Arms

Added Dec 27 2024
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Thomas Goy

Added Nov 4 2024
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JEFFREY’S LIVING WONDERS, SEASON 1930

Added Nov 2 2024
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Mademoiselle Gabrielle

Added Oct 20 2024
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Miss Rose Foster

Added Oct 12 2024
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Jeanie Tomaini & Siamese Twins’ Mother

Added Sep 8 2024
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Mlle. Gabriel “The living half woman”

Added Jun 2 2024
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Mlle. Gabriel “The living half woman”

Added May 12 2024
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Eli Bowen Broadside, As The Wild Man

Added Sep 4 2023
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Zandou “Quarter Boy”

Added Aug 18 2023
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Nicodemus “The Indescribable”

Added Jul 19 2023
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Nicodemus “The Indescribable”

Added Jul 19 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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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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Edward Boström, Legless Man With Prosthetic Legs

Added Oct 9 2022
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Eli Bowen, Wife and Son

Added Sep 25 2022
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Eli Bowen And Manager at Norman’s Museum

Added Sep 25 2022
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Master Eli Bowen

Added Sep 18 2022
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Eli Bowen with his Wife

Added Sep 18 2022
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Eli Bowen, Wife and Son

Added Sep 18 2022
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Eli Bowen “Legless Man”

Added Sep 18 2022
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Eli Bowen And Manager at Norman’s Museum

Added Sep 18 2022
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Randion With His Attendants

Added Sep 5 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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Unidentified Limbless Boy

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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Baneeta West “Armless Girl Musician”

Added Jan 1 2022
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European Circus Sideshow with Anna-John Budd, Randion, Schlitzie, etc.

Added Oct 24 2021
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Foy Large & Frank Morgner

Added Oct 24 2021
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Large and Morgner “An Act That Is Positively Unique”

Added Oct 24 2021
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Large & Morgner “Two Men and Two Legs”

Added Oct 24 2021
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Johanna, The German “Living Shop Window Bust”

Added Oct 9 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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Eli Bowen “Legless Man”

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

Added May 17 2020
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Unidentified Limbless Dwarf

Added May 11 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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Violetta, Armless & Legless Girl

Added Jul 28 2019
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Mlle. Gabrielle, Living Half Lady Business/Calling Card

Added May 12 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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Merey “The Armless Wonder” and Her Father In Front Of Their Showfront

Added Mar 3 2019
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Mademoiselle Gabriele “The Half Lady”

Added Apr 29 2018
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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
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Wesley Upperman “Half-Boy” Bannerline on Biller Brothers Circus Sideshow

Added Nov 5 2016
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Armless Man, Cipriano Maghanoy, of Sigijor, P.I.

Added Jul 10 2016
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Prohibition Turns Saloon “Globe Cafe” Into A Dime Museum

Added Jul 10 2016
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Wampus Wagel “Cherokee Indian Half Man”

Added Apr 16 2016
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Barto Rimel “Legless Wonder,” “Pity Card”

Added Apr 14 2016
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Ida Campbell/Claire Laroche “Half-Lady”

Added Mar 19 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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Freddie Esele at Coney Island

Added Nov 1 2015
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Martha Morris “The Armless Wonder”

Added Jul 26 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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Mdlle. Gabrielle

Added Apr 7 2015
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Mlle. Gabriele “The Only Living Half Lady”

Added Apr 7 2015
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Miss Gabriele “Die Englische Halbdame”

Added Apr 5 2015
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Mdlle. Gabrielle “The World’s Wonder”

Added Apr 5 2015
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Cyclone Breese

Added Apr 5 2015
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Vivante La Femme-Buste

Added Apr 1 2015
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Zandou “The Quarter Boy”

Added Mar 29 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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Johnny Eck & Friends

Added Jan 6 2015
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Johnny Eck at Birthday Party

Added Jan 5 2015
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Johnny Eck & Friends

Added Jan 5 2015
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[Johnny] Eck[hardt Bros.] Miniature Train Business Card

Added Jan 5 2015
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Prince Randion Flyer

Added Jan 4 2015
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Prince Randion Newspaper Ad 1907

Added Jan 4 2015
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Prince Randion

Added Jan 4 2015
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Prince Randion & His Wife

Added Jan 3 2015
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Prince Randion

Added Jan 3 2015
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Randion and His Attendants

Added Jan 3 2015
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Randion

Added Jan 3 2015
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Prince Randion “Armless & Legless Wonder”

Added Jan 3 2015
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Smiling Johnny Eck on his doorstep

Added Oct 26 2014
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Johnny Eck & Major

Added Oct 26 2014
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Johnny Eck & Friend

Added Oct 26 2014
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Johnny Eck Passport Photo

Added Oct 26 2014
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Johnny Eck & Robert Eck On a Ship

Added Oct 26 2014
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Johnny Eck and Ripley’s Attendents

Added Oct 25 2014
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Johnny Eck & Robert Eck

Added Oct 25 2014
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johnny Eck & Robert Eck

Added Oct 25 2014
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Johnny Eck & Robert Eck

Added Oct 25 2014
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Johnny Eck & Friends

Added Oct 24 2014
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Johnny Eck & Friend

Added Oct 19 2014
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Johnny Eck Pitchbook Repro (4 Pages)

Added Oct 19 2014
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Johnny Eck Pitchbook (4 Pages)

Added Oct 18 2014
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Charles Tripp, Unusual Pose

Added Oct 12 2014
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“A Wonder Worker” [Prince Randion]

Added Sep 28 2014
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Kitty Smith “Armless Girl”

Added Sep 12 2014
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Phénomène Musical

Added Aug 12 2014
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Charles Tripp “Armless Artist” Drawing from Admiral Dot’s Autograph Album

Added Jul 11 2014
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A.J. Murphy, Quadruple Prosthetic

Added Jun 28 2014
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A.J. Murphy, Quadruple Prosthetic

Added Jun 28 2014
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[Rosa Lee] Armless & Harmless Pitchbook (4 Pages)

Added Jun 28 2014
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C.H. Townsend “Living Wonder”

Added Jun 28 2014
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William C. Grant “Handless Musician”

Added Jun 28 2014
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William C. Grant “Handless Musician”

Added Jun 28 2014
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Martha Morris

Added Jun 28 2014
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Martha Morris

Added Jun 28 2014
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Martha Morris

Added Jun 28 2014
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Walter H. Stuart

Added Jun 28 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