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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:

Ella Harper

Lucy Elvira Jones

Prince Ma-Ho

Baneeta West

Alice Bounds, “The Bear Girl”

Mary Belle

Lewis Love

George Williams

Nicolai Vassilivich Kobelkoff

Johann Kleyser (also John)

Eddie Kissell

William Kingston

Oguri Kiba (Miss Oguri)

Willy Kaak

Tommy Jacobsen

Dick Hilburn

Miss Hawton “Without Arms”

Eddie Gifford “One-Legged Virtuoso Cyclist”

Alvina Gibbs

Thomas Gay

Gazay

Andrew A. Gawley

Frank E. Fithen

Jesse Ferry

Charles Francois Felu

Beulah Fawcett

Stephan Farffler

Miss Eva Eversole

James Elroy

Egoes “The Incomparable”

Kenny Easterday

Cesar Ducornet

Sis Cook

Frank Coleman

Bill Cole

John Chambers

Cazotte

Louise Capps

Camilla

Nathan Bunowy

Lorita Buford

Mathew Buchinger

Warrimeh Boseth

Sarah Biffin

Lewando Baldwin

Charles Tripp

Cipriano Maghanoy

Paul Desmuke

Frieda Pushnik

Rosa Lee

Eli Bowen

Isaac Stake

Freddie Esele

Grady Stiles

Myrtle Corbin

George Lippert

Frank Lentini

Violetta “The Half-Woman”

Mademoiselle Gabrielle

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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

Large and Morgner “An Act That Is Positively Unique”

Added Oct 24 2021

Large & Morgner “Two Men and Two Legs”

Added Oct 24 2021

Turtle George (Williams) Songster “O, Take Me Back To Baltimore”

Added Oct 11 2021

Johanna, The German “Living Shop Window Bust”

Added Oct 9 2021

Hoppie & Mignon “World’s Strangest Family”

Added Oct 9 2021

Freda Pushnik Sideshow Banner and Talker

Added Oct 4 2020

Freda Pushnik Sideshow Banner and Talker

Added Oct 4 2020

Oso “The Bear Boy”

Added Oct 3 2020

Mary Belle “Armless Artist”

Added Sep 27 2020

Lewis Love “Crawfish or Turtle-Boy”

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

A. Sabatini, “12-Fingered Man”

Added May 17 2020

Eli Bowen “Legless Man”

Added May 17 2020

Frank E. Fithen “The Armless Auto Speed KIng”

Added May 17 2020

Frank E. Fithen “Armless Cyclist”

Added May 17 2020

Frank Fithen “The Armless Auto Speed KIng”

Added May 17 2020

Frank E. Fithen “The Armless Auto Speed King”

Added May 17 2020

Frank Fithen “The Armless Auto Speed KIng”

Added May 17 2020

Otis “The Frog Boy” Pitchcard

Added May 17 2020

Otis Jordan “The Frog 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

Paul Desmuke with straight razor in his toes

Added May 11 2020

Paul Desmuke Writes With His Toes

Added May 11 2020

Rosa Lee “Armless Wonder” (Handcolored Photo)

Added Aug 4 2019

Rosa Lee “Armless Wonder” Pitchbook [Four Pages, v.2]

Added Aug 4 2019

Violetta, Armless & Legless Girl

Added Jul 28 2019

Clyde Beatty Circus Sideshow, 1950

Added May 30 2019

A.A. Pilgrim, “PERSEVERANCE”

Added May 27 2019

Store Show “Oddities On Parade Museum” In Phoenix, Arizona

Added May 27 2019

Sartori “The Armless Violin Player”

Added May 19 2019

Mlle. Gabrielle, Living Half Lady Business/Calling Card

Added May 12 2019

Paul Desmuke On The Backlot

Added May 6 2019

Paul Desmuke, Writing, Displaying His Violin and Guitar On A Postcard Sent To His Sister

Added May 5 2019

Paul Desmuke, Writing With His Toes

Added May 5 2019

Paul Desmuke Single-O Tent Show

Added Mar 31 2019

Paul Desmuke as Body Double For Lon Chaney In The Film “The Unknown”

Added Mar 31 2019

Ringling Brothers Barnum Bailey 1950 Sideshow Cast At Madison Square Garden

Added Mar 9 2019

Old Plantation Minstrel Showfront with Merey “The Armless Wonder” and Her Father

Added Mar 3 2019

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

Added Mar 3 2019

Prell’s Broadway Shows With Frank Lentini Banner

Added Aug 14 2018

Cipriano Maghanoy, Shooting A Rifle Armlessly

Added May 19 2018

Mademoiselle Gabriele “The Half Lady”

Added Apr 29 2018

Rosa Lee “Armless Wonder” Pitchbook (Four Pages)

Added Apr 29 2018

Eli Bowen

Eli Bowen, Wife, Children and Pet Goat

Added Jan 7 2018

A Night At Coney Island “Congress of Living Freaks” Stage Show

Added Jul 30 2017

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

Stanhope & Epstean’s New Dime Museum Handbill

Added Jan 8 2017

Facade of The Coney Island Dreamland Circus Sideshow in 1921

Added Nov 6 2016

Singer’s Congress of Human Freaks Letterhead

Added Nov 6 2016

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

Added Nov 5 2016

Lucy Jones “Camel Girl”

Added Sep 25 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

Betty Lou Williams Pitchbook (In Her Early 20’s)

Added Jul 4 2016

Maxine Mina, Four Legged Girl at Coney Island

Added May 31 2016

Charles Felu, Armless Artist Painting A Self Portrait

Added May 29 2016

Paul Desmuke, Shaving With A Straight-Razor Held In His Foot

Added May 29 2016

Issac Stake, Age 30

Added May 29 2016

Issac Stake, Age 33

Added May 29 2016

Issac Stake

Added May 29 2016

Sylvia Porter “Big Foot Girl”

Added Apr 28 2016

E.C. Beam “Mt. Orab, Ohio” [The 14-Fingered Man]

Added Apr 24 2016

Franciso Sandoval Rios “Big Foot Man” (V.1)

Added Apr 24 2016

Francisco Sandoval Rios “The Man With The Biggest Feet In The World”

Added Apr 24 2016

Franciso Sandoval Rios “Big Foot Man” (V.2)

Added Apr 18 2016

Ernest Faulconer & Son Jonathan “6-Fingers, 7-Toes”

Added Apr 18 2016

Ernest Faulconer & Son In John Hix Cartoon “6 Fingers, 7-8 Toes”

Added Apr 18 2016

Ernest Faulconer & Son “6 Fingers & 7 Toes”

Added Apr 18 2016

Sylvia Porter “Big Foot Girl”

Added Apr 17 2016

Joe Thibault “The Big-Fingered Boy”

Added Apr 17 2016

Wampus Wagel “Cherokee Indian Half Man”

Added Apr 16 2016

Clyde, “Boy With 24 Fingers & Toes”

Added Apr 16 2016

Clyde Eirl Kennison “Six Fingered Boy”

Added Apr 16 2016

Barto Rimel “Legless Wonder,” “Pity Card”

Added Apr 14 2016

Ida Campbell/Claire Laroche “Half-Lady”

Added Mar 19 2016

George Williams “Turtle Boy”

Added Mar 19 2016

Lewando Baldwin by Charles Eisenmann

Added Mar 19 2016

The Philipino Wonder

Added Mar 19 2016

The Autobiography of Miss Ann E. Leak (40 Pages)

Added Mar 19 2016

Martha Morris, “Armless Artist” As A Young Girl

Added Mar 19 2016

Teddy Reed’s Variety and Minstrel Show Bally Platform

Added Jan 4 2016

Freddie Esele at Coney Island

Added Nov 1 2015

Barney Nelson, Armless Artist

Added Sep 8 2015

Genie Weeks [Jeanie Tomaini] (4-Pages)

Added Aug 29 2015

Epstein’s New Dime Museum

Added Aug 23 2015

Grady Stiles

Added Aug 15 2015

Grady Stiles With Steve Brenner

Added Aug 15 2015

Grady Stiles & Father

Added Aug 15 2015

Grady Stiles

Added Aug 15 2015

Grady Stiles at 12 Years Old

Added Aug 15 2015

Grady Stiles at 10-12 Years Old

Added Aug 15 2015

Grady Stiles & Grady Junior

Added Aug 15 2015

Grady Stiles & Daughter

Added Aug 15 2015

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Fanny Mills “Ohio Bigfoot Girl”

Added Aug 8 2015

Martha Morris “The Armless Wonder”

Added Jul 26 2015

Barnum & Bailey’s Sideshow and Museum Bannerline

Added Jul 25 2015

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Ray Myers

Added Jul 25 2015

Sam Houston’s Museum Beautiful

Added Jul 12 2015

The World’s Museum & Theatre

Added Jul 12 2015

Violetta

Added Apr 26 2015

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Coney Island Alzoria and Alligator Boy

Added Apr 19 2015

Josephine Myrtle Corbin

Added Apr 19 2015

Josephine Myrtle Corbin

Added Apr 19 2015

Josephine Myrtle Corbin

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Myrtle Corbin

Added Apr 19 2015

Josephine Myrtle Corbin

Added Apr 19 2015

Myrtle Corbin and Family

Added Apr 19 2015

George Lippert

Added Apr 18 2015

Francesco Lentini (ca. 1898)

Added Apr 18 2015

Francesco Lentini

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Francesco Lentini

Added Apr 18 2015

Francesco Lentini

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Francesco “Francis” Lentini

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Francesco Lentini

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Francesco Lentini

Added Apr 18 2015

Francesco Lentini

Added Apr 18 2015

Francesco Lentini

Added Apr 18 2015

Francesco Lentini

Added Apr 18 2015

Francesco Lentini

Added Apr 18 2015

Francesco Lentini

Added Apr 18 2015

Francesco A. Lentini

Added Apr 18 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

Georgia Wilkinson “Armless Artist”

Added Apr 5 2015

Cyclone Breese

Added Apr 5 2015

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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

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