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Odd Extremities

See also: Armless

See also: Extra Limbs

See also: Legless

See also: Limbless

See also: Lobster Folk

See also: Frog Folk, Turtle Folk, Bear Folk, Serpent Folk, Penguin Folk

See also: Seal Folk

See also: Big Feet, Big Hands, Too Many Fingers

See also: Camel Girls, Pony Men, Dog Folk

See also: Spider-Boys

Performers in this category:

Kitty Smith

Joan Whisnant

Sealo

Rose Foster

Ho-Jo “The Bear Boy”

Walter J. Armitage

Alzoria

Alfred Pilgrim

Nicodemus

Robert Campbell

Baricassen

Bea Griffin

Frances O’Connor

Barney Nelson

W.C. Williams

John T. Owens

Samuel Parks

C.H. Unthan

Carl Norwood

Howard “The Lobster Boy”

Maxine Mina

Ella Harper

Lucy Elvira Jones

Prince Ma-Ho

Baneeta West

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The Life History of Francesco A. Lentini (8 Pages)

Added Jul 16 2025

Francesco Lentini “Life History” (8 Pages)

Added Jul 13 2025

Yours Truly, Kittie Smith (ver. 2)

Added Jul 13 2025

Yours Truly, Kittie Smith (ver. 3)

Added Jul 13 2025

Yours Truly, Kittie Smith (ver. 1)

Added Jul 13 2025

My Life Story, Kittie Smith (ver. 5)

Added Jul 13 2025

Yours Truly, Kittie Smith (ver. 4)

Added Jul 13 2025

Kitty Smith, “My Life Story” (14 Pages)

Added Jul 13 2025

Life Story of Kitty Smith, Armless Wonder (4 Pages)

Added Jul 12 2025

Mr. Ledgwood, No Hands, No Arms, One Leg and Foot

Added Jul 6 2025

Madame Foster, Dream Circus Sideshow

Added Jun 1 2025

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

Added Mar 19 2025

Elsie-John with “Coney Island Big Circus Sideshow”

Added Jan 5 2025

Al G. Barnes Sideshow with Desmuke & Elsie-John

Added Jan 5 2025

World’s Museum, 1934 with Anna John Budd

Added Dec 31 2024

Friedrich Kistler, Limbless Musician

Added Dec 28 2024

Paul Desmuke “Armless Wonder”

Added Dec 28 2024

Unidentified Young Woman, Truncated Arms

Added Dec 27 2024

Androgynous Woman Without Arms

Added Dec 27 2024

Androgynous Woman Without Arms

Added Dec 27 2024

Thomas Goy

Added Nov 4 2024

Joan Whisnant “Armless Girl”

Added Nov 2 2024

JEFFREY’S LIVING WONDERS, SEASON 1930

Added Nov 2 2024

Sealo As A Young Boy

Added Nov 2 2024

Unidentified Seven-Fingered Man

Added Oct 27 2024

Martha “The Armless Wonder” Typing

Added Oct 20 2024

Ho Jo “The Bear Boy”

Added Oct 20 2024

Mademoiselle Gabrielle

Added Oct 20 2024

Miss Rose Foster

Added Oct 12 2024

The Armless Man Shaves Himself (Charles Tripp)

Added Oct 6 2024

Hugo Marcus “Armless Man Smokes A Cigar”

Added Oct 6 2024

“The Seal Woman”

Added Oct 6 2024

Harper’s Parlor Circus Songster

Added Sep 29 2024

Jeanie Tomaini & Siamese Twins’ Mother

Added Sep 8 2024

Ann E. Leak, Headshot, 1872

Added Sep 7 2024

Ann E. Leak with “Scratch My Back” Needlepoint, ca. 1878

Added Sep 7 2024

Miss S. Biffin

Added Jul 14 2024

Mlle. Gabriel “The living half woman”

Added Jun 2 2024

Mlle. Gabriel “The living half woman”

Added May 12 2024

Wild Woman “Florida Demon” Handbill

Added Jan 7 2024

Shimmyland & Ursa The Bear Girl Sideshow Bannerline

Added Jan 7 2024

Thomas Schweicker “Armless” (1540-1602)

Added Dec 25 2023

Unidentified “Bear Woman”

Added Sep 24 2023

Ursa “The Bear Woman” Pitchbook (4-Pages)

Added Sep 24 2023

Johanna “The Bear” Woman [?]

Added Sep 24 2023

Alzoria Lewis “The Turtle Girl”

Added Sep 24 2023

Alice Bounds and Her Mother

Added Sep 24 2023

Alice Bounds in Scotland, Pickard’s Museum

Added Sep 24 2023

Young Alice Bounds “She-Bear”

Added Sep 23 2023

Walter J. Armitage

Added Sep 23 2023

Walter J. Armitage

Added Sep 23 2023

Mrs. W.J. Armitage

Added Sep 23 2023

Alzoria “The Turtle Girl”

Added Sep 17 2023

Alzoria and Johanna “World’s Strangest Family”

Added Sep 17 2023

Alzoria Greene

Added Sep 17 2023

Eli Bowen Broadside, As The Wild Man

Added Sep 4 2023

Jeanie and Al Tomaini

Added Sep 3 2023

Flippo “The Seal Boy”

Added Aug 26 2023

John Chambers “Armless Wonder” In Argentina

Added Aug 22 2023

Chester A. Lee, Armless Child

Added Aug 20 2023

Indian “Dog Man” Street Performer

Added Aug 20 2023

Ann E. Leak (1885)

Added Aug 20 2023

Zandou “Quarter Boy”

Added Aug 18 2023

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Mr. & Mrs. Chauncy Morlan at Huber’s 14th Street Museum

Added Jul 21 2023

Nicodemus “The Indescribable”

Added Jul 19 2023

Nicodemus “The Indescribable”

Added Jul 19 2023

Robert Campbell “The Armless Wonder”

Added Jul 16 2023

Moses Jerome, Elephantitis-Legged Boy & His Dog

Added May 7 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

Frances O’Connor, Sells Floto Circus

Added Nov 24 2022

Unidentified Frog Boy

Added Nov 24 2022

Lentini in San Francisco, 1934

Added Nov 24 2022

Lentini With Bowtie, Ice Cream Parlor Chair

Added Nov 24 2022

Frank Lentini, Nude From The Back

Added Nov 24 2022

Unidentified “Frog Boy” In Goat Cart with Pony

Added Oct 29 2022

George Williams “Turtle Boy” With Gun

Added Oct 25 2022

King Dodo (George Williams)

Added Oct 25 2022

George Williams “Turtle Boy”

Added Oct 25 2022

George Williams “Turtle Boy”

Added Oct 25 2022

Unidentified “Frog Man”

Added Oct 25 2022

Barney Nelson

Added Oct 25 2022

John P. King “The Armless Wonder”

Added Oct 24 2022

Willie Kaak “Fusskünstler”

Added Oct 24 2022

Frank LENTINI & CHANDLER Letterhead, 1912

Added Oct 23 2022

Frances Belle O’Connor

Added Oct 23 2022

Frances O’Connor, 1927

Added Oct 23 2022

Frances O’Connor

Added Oct 23 2022

Frances O’Connor, With Red Lipstick

Added Oct 23 2022

Frances O’Connor, 1936

Added Oct 23 2022

Frances O’Connor (?)

Added Oct 23 2022

Frances O’Connor

Added Oct 23 2022

Frances O’Connor, 1944

Added Oct 23 2022

W.C. Williams “One Arm One Man Band”

Added Oct 9 2022

John Chambers, Armless Man, Shaving

Added Oct 9 2022

Rigoberto Carillo, “The Sloth Man”

Added Oct 9 2022

Edward Boström, Legless Man With Prosthetic Legs

Added Oct 9 2022

John T. Owens, and Daughter

Added Oct 9 2022

John T. Owens and Wife Matilda

Added Oct 9 2022

Owens “The Armless Musician” at A Street Fair

Added Oct 8 2022

John T. Owens and Wife Matilda

Added Oct 8 2022

John T. Owens “Armless Musician”

Added Oct 8 2022

Jim Elroy “Armless Trumpeter”

Added Oct 8 2022

Jim Elroy “Armless Trumpeter”

Added Oct 8 2022

Captain Lewando Baldwin

Added Oct 8 2022

Lewando Baldwin

Added Oct 8 2022

Samuel Parks “Hopp, The Frog Boy”

Added Oct 8 2022

Mr. and Mrs. Samual Parks, “Hopp The Frog Boy” and “Wee Wee”

Added Oct 8 2022

Huey “The Pretzel Boy”

Added Oct 8 2022

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

Added Oct 8 2022

Carl Norwood and Dick Hilburn

Added Oct 8 2022

W.C. Williams “One-Armed One Man Band”

Added Sep 26 2022

W.C. Williams

Added Sep 26 2022

W.C. Williams “One-Armed One Man Band”

Added Sep 26 2022

Charles Tripp, 1924

Added Sep 26 2022

Charles Tripp

Added Sep 26 2022

Lewando Baldwin & Wife

Added Sep 26 2022

Charles B. Tripp, June 10, 1907

Added Sep 26 2022

Charles B. Tripp

Added Sep 25 2022

Charles B. Tripp

Added Sep 25 2022

Charles Tripp, Shaving, ca. 1920

Added Sep 25 2022

Charles Tripp, Shaving, circa 1920

Added Sep 25 2022

C.H. Unthan, 82 Years Old At The Typewriter

Added Sep 25 2022

C.H. Unthan “Armless Boy”

Added Sep 25 2022

C.H. Unthan “Armless”

Added Sep 25 2022

Unidentified Small Man with Reversed Feet

Added Sep 25 2022

Charles Tripp, Standing With His Topcoat On, 1893

Added Sep 25 2022

Charles Tripp, With Knife & Fork, 1890

Added Sep 25 2022

Charles Tripp, With Knife & Fork

Added Sep 25 2022

Charles B. Tripp, Shirtless, 1888

Added Sep 25 2022

Charles B. Tripp “Armlose Wunder” 1901 Barnum Bailey Tour, Austria

Added Sep 25 2022

Charles Tripp, 1887

Added Sep 25 2022

Charles Tripp, 1885

Added Sep 25 2022

Charles B. Tripp, ca. 1915

Added Sep 25 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

Gaywood The [Frog] Boy

Added Sep 6 2022

Randion With His Attendants

Added Sep 5 2022

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

Added Sep 4 2022

Miss Millie Howe “Armless Lady”

Added Sep 3 2022

Unidentified Limbless Boy

Added Sep 3 2022

Tripp & Bowen, Bicycle Riders

Added Sep 3 2022

Ella Harper “Camel Girl”

Added Aug 28 2022

Unidentified Armless Woman, Needlepointing

Added Aug 28 2022

Mlle. Marie “The Armless Girl”

Added Aug 14 2022

Freida Pushnik with her Dog

Added Aug 13 2022

Howard “The Lobster Boy” Pitchbook (4 pages)

Added Apr 30 2022

Momence Freakshow-Store Show

Added Apr 23 2022

Prince Ma-Ho Banner by E.H. Caldwell on Single-O

Added Apr 17 2022

Prince Ma-Ho Banner by E.H. Caldwell

Added Apr 17 2022

Worlds Wonders Circus Side Show Cast

Added Apr 17 2022

Myrtle Corbin, “Four-Legged Woman,” In Her 30’s

Added Jan 10 2022

Baneeta West “Armless Girl Musician”

Added Jan 1 2022

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

Added Oct 24 2021

Ann E. Leak, 1867

Added Oct 24 2021

Ann E. Leak Thompson Death Card, 1899

Added Oct 24 2021

Ann E. Leak Thompson, 1876

Added Oct 24 2021

Fanny Mills “The Ohio Big Foot Girl” Compliments of Minor & Bradley, Waterbury, Conn.

Added Oct 24 2021

Fanny Mills “Ohio Bigfoot Girl”

Added Oct 24 2021

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Foy Large & Frank Morgner

Added Oct 24 2021

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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