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Skin and Hair

See also: Albinos

See also: Bearded Ladies

See also: Hairy Folk

See also: Long Haired People

See also: Piebald People, Leopard-Skinned

See also: Alligator Skin, Elephant Skin, Armadillo-Skin

See also: Elastic-Skin, India Rubber-Skin, Blue Men, Human Slates

Performers in this category:

John Williams

Krao

Percilla Bejano

Stella MacGregor

Grace Gilbert

The Sacred Hairy Family of Burmah

Belle Carter

Nora

Irma Loustau

Julia Pastrana

Lionel “The Lion Faced Boy”

Mademoiselle Darwina

Madame Howard

Sandra Reed

The Seven Sutherland Sisters

Captain Rudolf Ivanovich

Colon T. Updike “Boy With The Horse’s Mane”

Benjamin G. Green

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Allister MacWilkie “World Prize Whiskers” at Coney Island

Added Apr 17 2016

Portrait of Lionel “The Lion-Faced Boy”

Added Apr 17 2016

Joseph & Barbara Leffler Studio Portrait, Albino Brother & Sister

Added Apr 16 2016

Kinko “Albino Contortionist”

Added Apr 11 2016

Krao, As A Young, Slim, Good-looking Hairy Lady

Added Apr 10 2016

Chatham Museum Handbill

Added Oct 17 2015

Indianapolis Dime Museum

Added Aug 30 2015

Rama

Added Aug 16 2015

Pearlie Foster

Added Jul 26 2015

Joseph Lucasie

Added Jul 26 2015

Krao

Added Jul 19 2015

The World’s Museum & Theatre

Added Jul 12 2015

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Coney Island Alzoria and Alligator Boy

Added Apr 19 2015

Madame Howard “Leonine”

Added Apr 5 2015

Madam Taylor

Added Apr 5 2015

Francine Lauther Bejano

Added Apr 4 2015

Francine Lauther Bejano

Added Apr 4 2015

Francine Lauther Bejano

Added Apr 4 2015

To-Ya (Tom Jack) and His Ice Family

Added Jan 18 2015

Lionette (Doris Gutterman)

Added Jan 18 2015

“Some of Barnum’s Freaks”

Added Jan 17 2015

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Miss Grace Sutherland, Long-Haired Sideshow Performer

Added Oct 19 2014

Mary Sutherland

Added Oct 19 2014

Mary Sutherland

Added Oct 19 2014

Dora Sutherland

Added Oct 19 2014

Dora Sutherland

Added Oct 19 2014

Naomi Sutherland

Added Oct 19 2014

Naomi Sutherland

Added Oct 19 2014

Victoria Sutherland

Added Oct 19 2014

Seven Sutherland Sisters

Added Oct 19 2014

Capt. Rudolf Ivanovitch

Added Oct 7 2014

Mr. John Fitzpatrick

Added Oct 3 2014

How I Became The Tattoo Queen (8 Pages)

Added Sep 29 2014

Life and History of Madame Howard (4 Pages)

Added Sep 29 2014

Sascha “Der berühmte Haar Kraft Gladiator” (Hair-Strength Gladiator)

Added Sep 28 2014

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Colon T. Updike featured in Ripley’s

Added Sep 13 2014

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Burnell & Prescott’s Museum “White Negro Girl”

Added Sep 12 2014

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Julia Pastrana Pitchbook

Added Sep 12 2014

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Barnum’s Freaks, American Museum 1865

Added Sep 12 2014

Zur Erinnerung an die weiße Indianerin “The White Squaw”

Added Aug 30 2014

The Anderson Sisters

Added Aug 24 2014

Unidentified Young Albino Woman

Added Aug 24 2014

Unidentified Young Albino Woman

Added Aug 24 2014

Unidentified Albino Mother and Son

Added Aug 24 2014

Tom Jack “der Eis-König”

Added Aug 24 2014

Unidentified Albino Girl

Added Aug 24 2014

Pearl Foster

Added Aug 24 2014

Ash “Wonderful Spotted Boy”

Added Aug 23 2014

Miss Millie La Mar “Mind Reader”

Added Aug 23 2014

Unidentified Albino Woman

Added Aug 23 2014

Unidentified Albino Woman

Added Aug 23 2014

Martin Albino Sisters

Added Aug 23 2014

Thelma and Doris

Added Aug 23 2014

Sadie Williams Anderson

Added Aug 17 2014

Joseph Lucasie

Added Aug 17 2014

The Reed Sisters “Albino Girls”

Added Aug 14 2014

Joe “The Leopard Boy”

Added Aug 14 2014

George & Willie Muse (Eko & Iko)

Added Aug 13 2014

Souvenir de Mademoiselle Darwina

Added Aug 13 2014

Ashbury Benjamin “Leopard Boy”

Added Aug 13 2014

Spotted Boy

Added Aug 13 2014

Circassian “Bob The Albino”

Added Aug 12 2014

Unzie “The Australian Aborigine”

Added Aug 12 2014

Silver Crown “World’s Only Leopard Boy”

Added Aug 12 2014

Albino Circassian

Added Aug 12 2014

Ricardo De Las Gracias Tigresa

Added Aug 11 2014

Miss Millie La Mar, “Albino Mind Reader”

Added Aug 11 2014

Albino Woman With Boots

Added Aug 11 2014

Unidentified Albino Princess

Added Aug 11 2014

Thelma & Doris Patton

Added Aug 11 2014

Aggie Zolutia

Added Aug 11 2014

Ettie Rogers

Added Aug 11 2014

Lillian Mahoney

Added Aug 11 2014

Unzie “The Australian Aborigine”

Added Aug 11 2014

Unzie

Added Aug 11 2014

Unzie

Added Aug 11 2014

Unzie

Added Aug 11 2014

Eliophobus Family

Added Aug 11 2014

Maximo & Bartolo & Albino Friend

Added Jul 17 2014

Kinko “The Albino Wonder”

Added Jul 13 2014

Lionel “The Lion Faced Boy”

Added Jul 7 2014

Lionel “The Lion Faced Boy”

Added Jul 7 2014

Lionel “Löwenmenschen”

Added Jul 7 2014

Lionel, L’Homme Lion

Added Jul 6 2014

Lionel “The Boy With The Lion’s Mane”

Added Jul 6 2014

Jo Jo “The Russian Dog-Faced Boy”

Added Jul 6 2014

Jojo “The Russian Dog-Faced Boy”

Added Jul 6 2014

Alice A. Doherty

Added Jul 6 2014

Alice A. Doherty

Added Jul 6 2014

Coney Island Sideshow

Added Jul 6 2014

Alice A. Doherty

Added Jul 6 2014

Alice A. Doherty

Added Jul 6 2014

Alice A. Doherty

Added Jul 6 2014

Julia Pastrana

Added Jun 29 2014

Lionel, der Löwenmensch

Added Jun 29 2014

Lionel, den Lowenmenschen

Added Jun 29 2014

“The Kostroma People,” Jo Jo & Father Adrian

Added Jun 29 2014

Jo Jo “The Russian Dog-Faced Boy”

Added Jun 29 2014

Fedor & Andrian “L’Homme-Chein”

Added Jun 29 2014

Jo Jo “The Russian Dog-Faced Boy”

Added Jun 29 2014

Jo Jo “The Russian Dog-Faced Boy”

Added Jun 29 2014

Jo Jo “The Russian Dog-Faced Boy”

Added Jun 29 2014

Cover of Jo! Jo! The Dog-Faced Boy Pitchbook

Jo Jo “The Dog-Faced Man” (18 Pages)

Added Jun 29 2014

Jo Jo “The Russian Dog-Faced Boy”

Added Jun 29 2014

Jo Jo “The Russian Dog-Faced Boy”

Added Jun 29 2014

Unidentified Man With Horse’s Tail (Colon T. Updike?)

Added Jun 25 2014

Irma Loustau “Die Pantherdame”

Added Jun 25 2014

Souvenir de NORA

Added Jun 25 2014

Capt. Rudolf Ivanovitch in Street Clothes

Added Jun 25 2014

Capt. Rudolf Ivanovitch (Stage III)

Added Jun 25 2014

Capt. Rudolf Ivanovitch (Stage II)

Added Jun 25 2014

Capt. Rudolf Ivanovitch (Stage I)

Added Jun 25 2014

Belle Carter “Woman with the Horse’s Tail”

Added Jun 24 2014

Mah-Me of The Sacred Hairy Family of Burmah

Added Jun 24 2014

Maphoon of The Sacred Hairy Family of Burmah

Added Jun 24 2014

Sacred Hairy Family of Burmah

Added Jun 24 2014

Moung Phoset of the “Sacred Hairy Family of Burmah”

Added Jun 24 2014

The Sacred Hairy Family of Burmah by EISENMANN

Added Jun 24 2014

Wolfboy and Wildman (Armond Carloman “The Piebald Youth” and Fortune Clofulla “The Gorilla Boy”)

Added Jun 24 2014

Alice Dougherty with her family

Added Jun 24 2014

Hairy Nevis Man

Added Jun 23 2014

Benjamin G. Green “The Alligator Man” (8 Pages)

Added Jun 21 2014

Benjamin G. Green “The Alligator Skin Man” (4 Pages)

Added Jun 21 2014

Moung Phoset of the “Sacred Hairy Family of Burmah”

Added Apr 26 2014

Mah Me of the “Sacred Hairy Family of Burmah”

Added Apr 26 2014

Mah Phoon of the “Sacred Hairy Family of Burmah”

Added Apr 26 2014

Alice “The Alligator Girl” Pitchbook (4 Pages)

Added Apr 26 2014

Yankee Robinson Museum of Living Wonders

Added Apr 13 2014

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Campbell Brothers Vaudeville Annex

Added Apr 10 2014

Barnum & Bailey Abnormitäten

Added Apr 7 2014

Barnum & Bailey Freaks

Added Apr 6 2014

Barnum & Bailey Circus Freaks for German Tour, 1903

Added Apr 6 2014

Interior of Barnum’s Sideshow Tent

Added Apr 6 2014

Malinda Maxey

Added Apr 5 2014

Mme. Christine

Added Apr 5 2014

Zola Williams

Added Apr 5 2014

Stella MacGregor “Bearded Woman”

Added Apr 5 2014

Stella, America’s Only True Bearded Woman

Added Apr 5 2014

Stella “The Bearded Lady”

Added Apr 4 2014

Pitchbook for Betty MacGregor “Stella”(4 Pages)

Added Apr 4 2014

Pima, Low-Bodiced & Van Dyked

Added Apr 4 2014

Jane Barnell “PRINCESS OLGA”

Added Apr 4 2014

Madame Hallean

Added Apr 4 2014

Grace Gilbert

Added Apr 4 2014

Grace Gilbert “KEE-BOO”

Added Apr 4 2014

Grace Gilbert “KEE-BOO”

Added Apr 4 2014

Unknown Bearded Woman

Added Apr 4 2014

Amanda King

Added Apr 4 2014

Mrs. Taylor (?)

Added Apr 3 2014

Mrs. Taylor (?)

Added Apr 3 2014

Joséphine Boisdechêne(?)

Added Apr 2 2014

Rebecca Lyon

Added Apr 2 2014

Rebecca Lyon, Long-Haired Bearded Lady

Added Apr 2 2014

Rebecca Lyon– Elaborate Hair Bearded Lady

Added Apr 2 2014

Mrs. Myers, Unbearded

Added Apr 2 2014

Mrs. A. Myers

Added Apr 2 2014

Mrs. Myers & Husband

Added Apr 2 2014

Mrs. Myers

Added Apr 2 2014

Mrs. Myers & Husband

Added Apr 2 2014

Madame Devere

Added Apr 2 2014

Madame Devere

Added Apr 2 2014

Madam Jane Devere & Husband

Added Apr 2 2014

Madam Jane Devere & Husband

Added Apr 2 2014

Madam Jane Devere & Husband

Added Apr 2 2014

English Bearded Woman

Added Apr 2 2014

English Bearded Woman

Added Apr 1 2014

Femme A Barbe

Added Apr 1 2014

Madame Howard “La Femme la Tete Lion”

Added Apr 1 2014

Madam Howard “Lion Face Lady”

Added Apr 1 2014

Annie Jones at 25-Years Old

Added Apr 1 2014

Annie Jones

Added Apr 1 2014

Annie Jones Bearded Woman Dressed As A Man

Added Apr 1 2014

Annie Jones on Boudoir Card

Added Apr 1 2014

Annie Jones, 19 Years Old

Added Apr 1 2014

Annie Jones in her Late-20’s

Added Mar 30 2014

Miss Annie Jones

Added Mar 30 2014

Annie Jones

Added Mar 30 2014

Annie Jones at 23-Years Old

Added Mar 30 2014

Annie Jones in her 20’s

Added Mar 30 2014

Annie Jones at 19-Years Old

Added Mar 30 2014

Annie Jones’s signature

Added Mar 30 2014

Annie Jones at 16-Years Old

Added Mar 30 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