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Limbless

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.

Performers in this category:

Jose de Leon

Ann E. Leak

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Walter H. Stuart

Added Jun 28 2014

Walter H. Stuart

Added Jun 28 2014

Phocomelia Man Writing With His Foot

Added Jun 28 2014

Alfred A. Stratton, Armless Civil War Vet

Added Jun 28 2014

Alfred A. Stratton, Armless Civil War Vet

Added Jun 28 2014

Jose de Leon, Armless Marvel

Added Jun 28 2014

Jose de Leon

Added Jun 28 2014

Jose de Leon

Added Jun 28 2014

Jose de Leon, Armless Marvel

Added Jun 28 2014

Freddie Esele “The Armless Wonder”

Added Jun 28 2014

Freddie Esele Tintype, with Group of Fellow Performers

Added Jun 28 2014

Freddy Esele “The Armless Wonder”

Added Jun 28 2014

Frank Esele “Born Without Arms”

Added Jun 28 2014

“Freddie” [Esele] The Armless Wonder

Added Jun 28 2014

Major John “Frog Boy”

Added Jun 28 2014

Major John “Frog Boy”

Added Jun 28 2014

Armless Man Tintype

Added Jun 28 2014

Ryan The Handless Wonder

Added Jun 28 2014

Ryan, The Handless Wonder

Added Jun 28 2014

Ryan The Handless Wonder

Added Jun 28 2014

Margarethe Mariot “Fusskünstlerin”

Added Jun 28 2014

Armless Pianist

Added Jun 28 2014

Kittie M. Smith

Added Jun 28 2014

Lady Josephine Brummett Polys

Added Jun 28 2014

Kittie (Kitty) M. Smith

Added Jun 28 2014

Sis Cook

Added Jun 28 2014

Ann E. Leak, 1870

Added Jun 28 2014

Ann E. Leak, 1876

Added Jun 28 2014

Ann E. Thompson (Leak), 1887

Added Jun 28 2014

Ann E. Thompson (Leak), 1884

Added Jun 28 2014

“Armless Girl” Tradecard Souvenir (Possibly Ann Leak)

Added Jun 27 2014

Ann E. Leak, ca. 1878

Added Jun 27 2014

The Harper Brothers– One-Legged Brother Act by Eisenmann

Added Jun 26 2014

Three Limbless Chums

Added Jun 26 2014

Chas. K. Addams “Fin-Fingered Fellow”

Added Jun 26 2014

WARRIMEH Weninch Boseth “The Hand-Footed Hunter”

Added Jun 26 2014

Miss Rose Foster

Added Jun 26 2014

Frank McKeown “Armless Globe Trotter”

Added Jun 26 2014

Frank McKeown “Armless Ball Player”

Added Jun 26 2014

Frank McKeown “Armless Wonder”

Added Jun 26 2014

Frank McKeown “The Armles Wonder”

Added Jun 26 2014

Texas Jack “One-Armed Whittler”

Added Jun 26 2014

The Philipino Wonder

Added Jun 26 2014

Robert Campbell “The Armless Wonder”

Added Jun 26 2014

Robert Campbell “Armless Wonder”

Added Jun 26 2014

A. A. Pilgrim, Armless-Legless Shootist

Added Jun 26 2014

A. A. Pilgrim, Armless-Legless Shootist

Added Jun 26 2014

Alfred A. Pilgrim

Added Jun 26 2014

A.A. Pilgrim

Added Jun 26 2014

Alfred Pilgrim

Added Jun 26 2014

Unidentified Man with Phocomelia

Added Jun 26 2014

Alfred Pilgrim

Added Jun 26 2014

Egoes, The Incomparable

Added Jun 26 2014

John Rose, Legless Goat Cart Driver

Added Jun 26 2014

Armless Man with Prosthetics At Organ

Added Jun 26 2014

Armless Bald Baby

Added Jun 26 2014

Champion One Leg Dancer

Added Jun 26 2014

Martha Morris, The Life History of The Armless Wonder (4 Pages)

Added Jun 21 2014

Freda K. Pushnik, “Photo and Story”

Added Apr 26 2014

Biography of Prince Randion (4 Pages)

Added Apr 26 2014

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

Added Apr 16 2014

Johnny Jones World of Living Wonders With Caucasian Prince Randion

Added Apr 13 2014

Ed Ray “Armless”

Added Apr 13 2014

Annie Jones “Infant Esau” & Miss Anna Leak

Added Mar 24 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