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Pinheads, Microcephalics

Pinheads or microcephalics, occupy a unique niche in showbusiness. Most of the freak performers who were billed as pinheads were mentally challenged and unable to take care of themselves. Like child actors, pinheads could be easily exploited by their surrogate parents, their managers.

Performers in this category:

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”

Hoomio and Iola

Gondio and Apexia

Jenny Lee, Elvira, and Clayton Snow

Schlitzie

Kiko and Sulu

Athelia

Aurora and Natali

Wild Rose

Moko “The Missing Link”

Maximo and Bartola

Zip “What-Is-It”

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Wild Rose “The Yucatan Wonder”

Added Feb 21 2017

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Added Jan 8 2017

Facade of The Coney Island Dreamland Circus Sideshow in 1921

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Zip & Ashbury Benjamin

Added Jul 9 2016

Zip & Ashbury Benjamin

Added Jul 8 2016

Delphi “The Orange-Headed Girl”

Added Apr 16 2016

Zip “What Is it?” at Coney Island

Added Aug 16 2015

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Added Jul 22 2015

Pinheads from Al G. Barnes Circus

Added Jan 19 2015

Athelia “Yucatan Aztec”

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Added Jul 18 2014

Maximo & Bartolo & Albino Friend

Added Jul 17 2014

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Added Jul 17 2014

Hoomio & Iola “Wild Australian Children”

Added Jul 16 2014

Wild Australian Children Tradecard

Added Jul 16 2014

Hoomio and Iola “Wild Australian Children”

Added Jul 16 2014

Maximo Et Bartolo

Added Jul 16 2014

La Femme Barthola “Les Derniers Aztéques”

Added Jul 15 2014

L’homme Maximo “Les Derniers Aztéques”

Added Jul 15 2014

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Maximo and Bartola with manager

Added Jul 15 2014

Clyde Beatty Sideshow Ticket Seller

Added Apr 6 2014

Interior of Barnum’s Sideshow Tent

Added Apr 6 2014

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1893 Newspaper Advertisement For The Tocci Brothers and Chevalier Cliquot

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1893 Newspaper Advertisement For The Tocci Brothers and Chevalier Cliquot

Added March 30, 2024

HORROR STORIES Pulp Cover Two-Headed Girl (December 1940)

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