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Misc Freaks

These are the freak acts that fit into multiple categories, or really no category at all due to their uniqueness.

See also: Handicapped/Helpless

See also: Pinheads, Microcephalics

See also: Modern Freaks

See also: Ossified

See also: Anomalies

See also: Strange Talents

See also: Half-Man Half-Woman, Half-And-Halfs, Hermaphrodites, Intersex

See also: Craniofacial Anomalies

Performers in this category:

Max-Maxine

Earl “Smoky” Hall

Arthur Loos

Toah “The African Horned Man”

Calvin Byrd

Walter J. Armitage

Sylvie Chester

Charlene “The Ape Girl”

James-Jennette

Julius B. Shuster

Joe Horowitz

George R. Shebbeard

Albert-Alberta

The Black Diamond

Three Ball Charlie

Arthur Fuller

Billy Wells

James Mandy

Joseph Merrick

Michael Wilson

G.W. Anderson

Billy Dick

Serpentina

Otis Jordan

Francis-Francine Hodgkiss

Asra

Delphi “The Girl With The Orange Head”

Les Himalayas

Julius Graubart

Tik-Tak

A-Go

Pigmys from Abbyssinnia

Hutty and Tain

Chang “Chinese Pinhead”

Anita “The Elephant Nose Girl”

Mary Ann Bevan

Bingo

Milo, “The Mule-Faced Boy”

Lucius Norval Monroe

Sam Alexander

Sam Alexander

Paul McWilliams

Mike Butch

Elsie-John

Lewis Love

Laurello

Lala Coolah

Francis “Half-Man, Half-Woman”

Elmer-Thelma

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The Adventures of an Australian Traveler (Tom & Hettie)

Added Jul 13 2025

Unidentified Man with Facial Tumors Daguerreotype

Added Jul 12 2025

Elsie John and Joey Martinez (12 Pages) [Herbert Huncke]

Added Jul 5 2025

Schlitze and His Bannerline on The Tom Mix Circus

Added Jul 5 2025

Schlitze and His Bannerline on The Tom Mix Circus

Added Jul 5 2025

Schlitze Bannerline on Tom Mix Circus

Added Jul 5 2025

Schlitze Bannerline on The Tom Mix Circus

Added Jul 5 2025

Pinhead or Cocoanut Head People [Elvira Snow]

Added Jul 4 2025

Life of W.T. Sapp, The World Famous Ossified Man (20 Pages)

Added May 18 2025

Worlds Circus Museum Store Show in New York City

Added May 3 2025

Four Pages From Ambroise Paré’s work “Prodigies and Monsters”

Added Feb 3 2025

Elsie-John Composite

Added Jan 5 2025

Elsie-John with “Coney Island Big Circus Sideshow”

Added Jan 5 2025

Half-Man, Half Woman, Elsie-John

Added Jan 5 2025

Al G. Barnes Sideshow with Desmuke & Elsie-John

Added Jan 5 2025

Athelia

Added Jan 1 2025

Zippo and Flippo (Elvira & Clayton Snow)

Added Jan 1 2025

Athelia, Smiling

Added Jan 1 2025

Kiko and Sulu “Pinheads From Zanzibar”

Added Jan 1 2025

Crafts Shows Group With Anna-John Budd

Added Dec 31 2024

Anna John Budd Single-O Show

Added Dec 31 2024

Anna John Budd Stands In Front Of Her Show

Added Dec 31 2024

Anna John Budd With Two Native Women

Added Dec 31 2024

World’s Museum, 1934 with Anna John Budd

Added Dec 31 2024

Roberta-Ray “The Imatator of Ann-John Budd”

Added Dec 31 2024

Milo “Half-and-Half”

Added Dec 31 2024

Arthur Loos & Paul Whitaker

Added Dec 30 2024

Filipino Hydrocephalic Child

Added Dec 28 2024

Unidentified Young Man with Osteogenesis Imperfecta

Added Dec 27 2024

Schlitzie, Koo Koo, and Zip at Kodet’s Harlem Museum

Added Oct 27 2024

Zip, In The Hospital (1926)

Added Oct 27 2024

Maximo & Bartola

Added Oct 27 2024

Toady

Added Oct 20 2024

Martin Laurello Writes to Walter Sibley at Hubert’s Museum

Added Oct 20 2024

D. Waldow “Mouse Regurgitator”

Added Oct 20 2024

Paul McWilliams “Golfball Mouth”

Added Oct 20 2024

The Two Ugliest Men In The World

Added Oct 20 2024

William Harris “Big Mouth”

Added Oct 20 2024

Suzanne “Oldest Woman In The World”

Added Oct 6 2024

Leonard Trask Pamphlet (v.1) (38 Pages)

Added Oct 6 2024

Louis Fleury “The Blind Lightning Calculator”

Added Oct 6 2024

Koo Koo, Zip & Schlitzie At Coney

Added Oct 6 2024

Mary Ann (Bevan) REVAN [sic]

Added Oct 6 2024

Warren Woodson “The Great Bird Imitator”

Added Sep 30 2024

Murrugan The Mystic Pitchcard

Added Aug 11 2024

Murrugan The Mystic Pitchcard

Added Aug 11 2024

Unidentified Man With Neurofibromatosis, Tintype

Added Jun 18 2024

Lary-Léna

Added Mar 30 2024

Wild Woman “Florida Demon” Handbill

Added Jan 7 2024

Leonard Trask Pitchbook (v.4)

Added Jan 6 2024

Leonard Trask Pitchbook (v.3) (48-Pages)

Added Jan 6 2024

Leonard Trask Pamphlet (v.2) (48-Pages)

Added Jan 6 2024

Unidentified Handicapped Dwarf

Added Sep 23 2023

Charles Porter “Body Turned To Stone”

Added Sep 23 2023

Maurice, Ossified Man with Attendents

Added Sep 23 2023

Leo “The Ossified Man”

Added Sep 23 2023

Frank Worden, Ossified Man

Added Sep 23 2023

Frank Worden

Added Sep 23 2023

John Shouse “Ossified”

Added Sep 23 2023

Ossified Frank [Worden]

Added Sep 23 2023

John Shouse “The Stone Man”

Added Sep 23 2023

Dolly Scharver (Reagan) with Steven Brenner

Added Sep 23 2023

Unidentified Ossified Man

Added Sep 21 2023

J.R. Bass “The Ossified Man”

Added Sep 17 2023

W.T. Sapp on His Cart

Added Sep 17 2023

W.T. Sapp with Manager

Added Sep 17 2023

W.T. Sapp

Added Sep 17 2023

Medusa Van Allen (Loretta)

Added Sep 17 2023

Edwin “The Ossified Boy” Single-O

Added Sep 17 2023

Mary Ann Bevan

Added Sep 4 2023

Mary Ann Bevan & Family

Added Sep 4 2023

Mary Ann Bevan With Long Hair

Added Sep 4 2023

Sylvie Chester “Sex–Freaks–Anomalies” (8 Pages)

Added Aug 18 2023

Julis – Pinhead [Julius Graubert]

Added Aug 18 2023

Unidentified Half-And-Half

Added Aug 18 2023

Mary Ann Bevan “The World’s Ugliest Woman”

Added Jul 24 2023

James-Jennette

Added Jul 23 2023

Zip!

Added Jul 23 2023

J.C. Wood “King Bee”

Added Jul 23 2023

Dr. Woods, “The Bee Man”

Added Jul 23 2023

Clarence Willard “The Man Who Grows”

Added Jul 23 2023

Alfred Langevin

Added Jul 16 2023

Julius Shuster “Pick-Up Artist”

Added Jun 25 2023

Julius Shuster “Pick-Up Artist”

Added Jun 25 2023

Joe Horowitz “The Man With The Iron Nose”

Added Jun 25 2023

Mac Norton “The Human Aquarium”

Added Jun 24 2023

Three-Ball Charlie

Added Jun 24 2023

Zip Playing The Violin

Added Mar 18 2023

A Curious Man (From Hong Kong)

Added Oct 23 2022

Unidentified Young Man In A Cart

Added Oct 23 2022

Sergeant George R. Shebbeard In Wagon

Added Oct 23 2022

J.L. Shirah, Tricycle-Bound Rifleman

Added Oct 23 2022

Thomas O’Brien with Dogcart

Added Oct 23 2022

Unidentified Handicapped, Bowler-Hatted Man in Cart

Added Oct 9 2022

Arthur Fuller in His Traveling Cart

Added Oct 8 2022

Unidentified Legless One-Armed Motorcycle Rider With His Dog

Added Oct 8 2022

Legless One-Armed Driver With Dog

Added Oct 8 2022

Helpless Woman In Carriage

Added Oct 8 2022

Boy On Cart With Useless Legs

Added Sep 26 2022

James Mandy “The Man With The Solid Ivory Dome”

Added Sep 12 2022

Prague “Mercy House” with Hydrocephalic Child

Added Sep 1 2022

Grace McDaniel and son Elmer, ca. 1930

Added Aug 28 2022

Craniofacial Deformity, Dr. Ochi Collection

Added Aug 28 2022

Souvenir a Asra

Added Aug 14 2022

Frank Henderson “Legless Cart Rider”

Added Jun 12 2022

G.W. Anderson “Ossified”

Added Apr 25 2022

Momence Freakshow-Store Show

Added Apr 23 2022

Worlds Wonders Circus Side Show Cast

Added Apr 17 2022

Billy Dick “Half-and-Half”

Added Apr 17 2022

Billy Dick “Half-and-Half”

Added Apr 17 2022

Billy Dick “Half-and-Half”

Added Apr 17 2022

Medusa Van Allen Smiling In The Arms of Her Brother (?)

Added Apr 17 2022

Ann John Budd “Double-Bodied Woman” Banner

Added Apr 17 2022

Marie From Paree In Street Clothes with her Dog

Added Apr 9 2022

Marie From Paree “Half and Half”

Added Apr 9 2022

Willie Camper, Mexican Rose and Australian Pinhead Chang

Added Apr 3 2022

Anna-John Budd Single-O in Australia

Added Apr 3 2022

The Aztec Girls

Added Jan 18 2022

Lucius Norval Monroe “Ossified” With Mr. Vanderhoo

Added Oct 30 2021

Lucius Norval Monroe “Ossified” With His Valet Mr. Vanderhoo

Added Oct 30 2021

European Circus Sideshow with Anna-John Budd, Randion, Schlitzie, etc.

Added Oct 24 2021

Hoppie & Mignon “World’s Strangest Family”

Added Oct 9 2021

Albert Alberta “1/2 A Man, 1/2 A Woman” Ad-Sheet

Added Jun 6 2021

Kiki and Bobo “Monkey People” Pitchbook (2-Pages)

Added Jun 6 2021

Francies Benton “One Body––Two People” Pitchbook (4-Pages)

Added May 23 2021

Hippo, The Man From Mars

Added Oct 4 2020

Jean “Jimmie” Holland, Female Impersonator

Added Oct 4 2020

Zip

Added Oct 3 2020

Americo “Indian Rubber Man”

Added Sep 27 2020

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Laurello Pitchbook from Dreamland, Coney Island

Added Sep 26 2020

Louis Love Carnival Sideshow Showfront with Banner and ticket-taker

Louis Love Single-O Showfront With Banner & Ticket-Taker

Added Sep 20 2020

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Lew Alter’s Sideshow Group with Schlitzie

Added Jul 29 2020

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

Added May 24 2020

Otis Jordan, Age 33

Added May 17 2020

Otis “The Frog Boy” Pitchcard

Added May 17 2020

Otis Jordan “The Frog Man”

Added May 17 2020

Otis Jordan “Human Cigarette Factory”

Added May 17 2020

Benjamin Franklin “Armless & Legless Soldier”

Added May 11 2020

A Handbuilt Car “The Little Wonder” With Handicapped Driver Endorsing Products

Added Jul 29 2019

Richard B. Coogan, 100,000 Mile Trip On Motorcycle

Added Jul 29 2019

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Gaddah, “The American Elephant Man” by Wendt

Added Jul 24 2019

Anthony Weiss “The Living Wonder”

Added Jul 7 2019

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Lala Coolah, The Showman, in 1913

Added Jun 3 2019

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Lala Coolah at New Orleans American Legion Festival

Added Jun 1 2019

Clyde Beatty Circus Sideshow, 1950

Added May 30 2019

Lala Coolah “Man-Venus” or “Half-Man, Half Woman” Pitchbook (4 Pages)

Added May 28 2019

Anna-John Budd with Friends On The Backlot, Wortham’s Shows

Added May 19 2019

Elmer Thelma “Half-Man, Half-Woman”

Added May 19 2019

Thelma Elmer “Half-Man, Half-Woman”

Added May 19 2019

Anna-John Budd and Friends in Tijuana

Added May 19 2019

Roberta-Ray, “Half-Man, Half-Woman”

Added May 19 2019

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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