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Life Story of Kitty Smith, Armless Wonder (4 Pages)

Added Jul 12 2025

Pete Kortes World’s Fair Museum Sideshow

Added Jul 6 2025

Schlitze and His Bannerline on The Tom Mix Circus

Added Jul 5 2025

Schlitze and His Bannerline on The Tom Mix Circus

Added Jul 5 2025

Schlitze Bannerline on Tom Mix Circus

Added Jul 5 2025

Schlitze Bannerline on The Tom Mix Circus

Added Jul 5 2025

JO-JO, Bill Holliday’s Almost Human Dummy

Added Jun 2 2025

Worlds Circus Museum Store Show in New York City

Added May 3 2025

Anna John Budd Stands In Front Of Her Show

Added Dec 31 2024

Wonderland Circus Sideshow, Coney Island

Added Dec 31 2024

Arthur Loos & Paul Whitaker

Added Dec 30 2024

Juan and Martina De La Cruz “The Philippino Midgets”

Added Dec 28 2024

Darkest Africa Show At The Century of Progress with Woo Foo

Added Nov 6 2024

Darkest Africa Show At The Century of Progress with Woo Foo

Added Nov 5 2024

Alice “The Alligator Girl”

Added Nov 2 2024

Aloa “The Armadillo Boy”

Added Oct 20 2024

Martin Laurello Writes to Walter Sibley at Hubert’s Museum

Added Oct 20 2024

Miss Rose Foster

Added Oct 12 2024

World Circus Sideshow, Coney Island, 1932

Added Aug 31 2024

Medieval Tortures at Coney Island

Added Aug 5 2024

Chastity Belt Pitchbook from Medieval Tortures Show (6 Pages)

Added Aug 4 2024

Blacaman With Lions

Added May 19 2024

Robert Wadlow, June 2, 1936

Added Dec 25 2023

Leo “The Ossified Man”

Added Sep 23 2023

Sylvie Chester “Sex–Freaks–Anomalies” (8 Pages)

Added Aug 18 2023

Miss Corinne Nienstedt “Hypnotic Burial”

Added Jul 24 2023

1937 Philadelphia Store Show Facade

Added Jul 22 2023

Funeral Card for Robert Pershing Wadlow (Orange Version)

Added May 7 2023

Funeral Card for Robert Pershing Wadlow (Purple Version)

Added May 7 2023

Artie Atherton Celluloid Mirror Souvenir

Added May 7 2023

Babe Alice & Major Claude

Added Mar 19 2023

King Chong & Princess Wong

Added Sep 5 2022

Unidentified Limbless Boy

Added Sep 3 2022

Baby Bunny Robinson

Added Aug 14 2022

Myrna Myrle Clifton “Midget City, 1934”

Added Aug 14 2022

Captain Werner of Midget City, Century of Progress 1934

Added Aug 14 2022

Freida Pushnik with her Dog

Added Aug 13 2022

O.R. Sampson “Swiss Handbell” Player

Added Aug 13 2022

World Wonder Car Museum

Added Aug 13 2022

juan & Martina de la Cruz, ages 53 & 55

Added Jun 30 2022

Mexican Rose In Costume

Added Apr 3 2022

Fat Girl Mexican Rose with Koala Bear

Added Apr 3 2022

Unidentified Midget Performer

Added Apr 3 2022

Jolly [E]DNA

Added Apr 3 2022

Sally & Al on Go Cart

Added Apr 3 2022

Sally on Go Cart at Carnival Speedway

Added Apr 3 2022

Buddy & Sally on Bally Stage in Australia

Added Apr 3 2022

Hamer[?], Fire Eater On Australian Bally Stage

Added Apr 3 2022

Banner-line for Anna-John Australia-New Zealand

Added Apr 3 2022

Sword-Swallower Alex Linton on Australian Bally Stage.

Added Apr 3 2022

Ticket Seller For Ubangi The Tiny Tree Woman

Added Apr 3 2022

Dancing Girls on Australian Sideshow Showfront

Added Apr 3 2022

Anna-John Budd Single-O in Australia

Added Apr 3 2022

Irene Clifford “The English Fasting Lady”

Added Dec 5 2021

Foy Large & Frank Morgner

Added Oct 24 2021

Bob “Popeye” Everhart Signed Photo

Added Jun 6 2021

Betty Broadbent “America’s Premier Tattooed Lady” Pitchbook (4 Pages)

Added Jun 6 2021

Joseph Grendol & Robert Everhart with Ripley’s Odditorium

Added May 3 2021

J.M. Taber “Popeye”

Added May 2 2021

Elizabeth Green, “The Stork Woman” (or Koo Koo), 1928

Added Oct 4 2020

Elizabeth Green, “The Stork Woman” (or Koo Koo), ca. 1936

Added Oct 4 2020

Elizabeth Green, “The Stork Woman” (or Koo Koo), ca. 1936

Added Oct 4 2020

Elizabeth Green, “The Stork Woman” (or Koo Koo), 1936

Added Oct 4 2020

Kombouai “Ubangi” Woman

Added Oct 3 2020

Oso “The Bear Boy”

Added Oct 3 2020

Laurello Pitchbook from Dreamland, Coney Island

Added Sep 26 2020

Red Hill Went Over Niagara Falls In A Barrel

Added Jul 28 2020

Robert Ripley With Topless “Ubangi Savage”

Added May 10 2020

Del Rio Midgets

Added Apr 24 2020

Rosa Lee “Armless Wonder” (Handcolored Photo)

Added Aug 4 2019

The Nelson Supply House, Mummified Curiosities, New Latest List No. 11 (16 Pages)

Added Jul 28 2019

Violetta, Armless & Legless Girl

Added Jul 28 2019

Laurello “The Wonder Man”

Added May 27 2019

Unidentified Performer On Stage Inside The Sideshow Tent

Added May 27 2019

Winsome Winnie Portrait Autographed To Anna-John Budd

Added May 27 2019

Two Midget Showfolks On The Backlot of Wortham’s Show

Added May 19 2019

Thelma Elmer “Half-Man, Half-Woman”

Added May 19 2019

Roberta-Ray, “Half-Man, Half-Woman”

Added May 19 2019

Paul Desmuke as Body Double For Lon Chaney In The Film “The Unknown”

Added Mar 31 2019

Miss Patricia “Sensational Sword Swallower”

Added Mar 12 2019

Bed of Spikes or Nails Composite Photo

Added Mar 12 2019

Funhouse With Banner “Half Shot At Sunset”

Added Nov 5 2018

Mike Butch “Popeye” Impersonator (and Gurner)

Added Aug 14 2018

“Believe It Or Not” Store Show Ticket Stamped F.W. Miller

Added May 27 2018

Docen[‘]s Freak Animal Oddities Ticket

Added May 27 2018

Carl J. Lauther 1938 Store Show Christmas Card

Added May 27 2018

“World’s Fair Oddities” Store Show Ticket Booth and Storefront

Added May 20 2018

The Howard Sideshow

Added May 19 2018

Princess Wee-Wee And Manager(?)

Added May 18 2018

Mademoiselle Gabriele “The Half Lady”

Added Apr 29 2018

Monkey Show Owner & Monkey Show Banner

Added Apr 8 2018

Monkey Circus Sideshow

Added Apr 8 2018

Leo Kongee “Human Blockhead”

Added Apr 8 2018

Ray Marsh Brydon’s “Believe It Or Not” Show

Added Jul 29 2017

Show Front for Zaza Frazee “Woman Turning Into A Man” on Venice Beach

Added Feb 6 2017

John Hix’s “Strange As It Seems” Cartoon of Prince Randion

Added Jan 31 2017

Snapshot “Mayor Thrill Arena” Show Motordome at Rockford, IL, 1939

Added Jan 8 2017

The Milton Sisters, Fake “Siamese Twins”

Added Jan 7 2017

Mr. & Mrs. Tex Cooper, Showman and Midget Wife

Added Nov 5 2016

The Great Omi and Prof. George Burchett

Added Jul 4 2016

Tanit-Ikao and One of Her Deadly Snakes

Added Apr 18 2016

Hubert’s Museum Matchbook Cover

Added Apr 14 2016