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1851-1865

Member Images - Dates

Eli Bowen And Manager at Norman's Museum
Julia Pastrana
Joseph Gantonio "The Young Italian Giant"
J.J. Brice "French Giant"
Signor Bertolotto at 209 Regents Street
Herr Lidusdroph's Russian Fleas, 1852
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Performers active

  • Ann E. Leak aka Ann Eliza Leak, aka "Armless Wonder", aka Ann E. Thompson in FREAKS, in Armless, in Limbless
  • Phineas Taylor Barnum aka P.T. Barnum
  • Eli Bowen aka The Legless Acrobat in Legless, in Limbless, in Acrobats
  • Captain Rudolf Ivanovich aka "The Nihilist Exile of Siberia" in FREAKS, in Hairy Folk, in Wild Folk
  • Dora Dawson "The Double-Voiced Singer" in Half-Man Half-Woman, Half-And-Halfs, Hermaphrodites
  • The Great Farini aka "The Canadian Barnum" in Acrobats, in Daredevils, in Funambulists
  • George Anderson aka "The Living Skeleton" in Human Skeleton, Living Skeleton, Thin Man
  • Issac Sprague in Human Skeleton, Living Skeleton, Thin Man
  • Jumbo aka "The Children's Friend" in BEASTS, in Elephants
  • Maximo and Bartola aka Maximo and Bartola Burgos, aka Maximo and Bartolo, aka Maximo and Barthola, aka "The Aztec Children", aka "Aztecs of Ancient Mexico", aka Maximo Valdez Nunez and Bartola Velasquez, aka "The Aztec Lilliputians" in Pinheads, Microcephalics, in Wild Folk
  • Signor L. Bertolotto in Flea Circus
  • Isaac Stake in Legless, in Handicapped/Helpless
  • Tom Thumb aka Charles Sherwood Stratton in Little People, Midgets, Dwarves
  • Waino & Plutano aka "Wild Men of Borneo", aka Hiram W. and Barney Davis, aka Waino and Plutanor in Wild Folk
  • Zip aka William Henry Johnson, aka "What-Is-It", aka "King of The Freaks", aka William Henry Garfield Johnston in FREAKS, in Pinheads, Microcephalics, in Wild Folk

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