Schlitzie, Koo Koo, and Zip at Kodet's Harlem Museum
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6.5" x 8.5" Wire Service Photo. Circa 1924 rare original of the often reproduced image of the three famed freaks-- Koo Koo 'The Bird Girl, Zip 'The What Is It,' and Schlitzi 'The Aztec Pinhead'-- playing instruments. Identified on the verso as having been taken at Kodet's Harlem Museum. Photo by the Keystone Company, New York. The photo was taken for a September 21, 1924 article in the New York Times, but not published until it became an arcade card years later.......... On verso, wire service caption, typed: "THE ONLY ONE LEFT.
