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Unusual Artists and Craftsmen

Here we have performers who earned their daily bread by applying special and unusual artistic skill to bear on the situation. Armless artists, micrographic writers, fast sculptors, and the like are here to entertain.

Performers in this category:

E.J. Perry

Barney Nelson

Nabor Feliz

Rattlesnake Pete

Sarah Beffin

Charles Francois Felu

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E.J. Perry Silhouettist Silouette, 1909

Added Dec 28 2024

E.J. Perry Silhouettist Silouette

Added Dec 28 2024

James Zaharee Souvenir Rice Card from Ripley’s Odditorium, San Diego

Added May 7 2023

Nabor Felix “Lightning Sculptor”

Added Sep 27 2020

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

Added May 24 2020

Blystone, Microscopy Writer Advert for Ripley’s Odditorium, 1933 Century of Progress

Added May 10 2020

James W. Zaharee Rice Writing Souvenir, 1935

Added Oct 6 2016

Homma Japanese Rice Writer Souvenir, 1934 Odditorium

Added Oct 6 2016

James W. Zaharee Souvenir Rice Writing From Ripley’s Odditorium, 1935

Added Oct 6 2016

James W. Zaharee Souvenir Rice Writing From Ripley’s Odditorium, 1935

Added Oct 6 2016

James W. Zaharee Souvenir Rice Writer Card, 1936

Added Oct 3 2016

Charles Felu, Armless Artist Painting A Self Portrait

Added May 29 2016

Barney Nelson, Armless Artist

Added Sep 8 2015

Professor K.F. Fitz Showcard Writer from Admiral Dot’s Autograph Book

Added Jul 12 2014

Nabor Feliz Netzahualt “Clay Sculptor”

Added Apr 13 2014

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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