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There’s Only “1 In A Million” (20 Pages)

Added May 31 2025

Sword Swallower Valentine Card

Added Dec 30 2024

Joan Whisnant “Armless Girl”

Added Nov 2 2024

Unidentified Seven-Fingered Man

Added Oct 27 2024

Jeanie Tomaini & Siamese Twins’ Mother

Added Sep 8 2024

Al Tomaini with The Giant’s Camp Sign

Added Sep 8 2024

Giant’s Tourist Court and Trailer Park Guest Card

Added Sep 8 2024

Giant’s Tourist Court and Trailer Park Guest Card

Added Sep 8 2024

Al Tomaini and Friend on The Backlot, 1940

Added Sep 8 2024

Al Tomaini & Friend #7

Added Sep 8 2024

World’s Smallest Father, Juan De La Crux [sic], with Uniformed Son

Added Sep 1 2024

Al Tomaini and Friend on The Backlot, 1940

Added Aug 11 2024

Al Tomaini Hand Tracing

Added Aug 11 2024

HORROR STORIES Pulp Cover Two-Headed Girl (December 1940)

Added Jan 28 2024

John Shouse “The Stone Man”

Added Sep 23 2023

Nate Eagle’s Hollywood Midget Movie Stars

Added Aug 20 2023

Willie Camper Getting His Foot Measured

Added Aug 20 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

A Ton of Mama, A Pound of Papa (Babe Alice and Major Claude)

Added Mar 18 2023

Miss Patricia (Zurm) “Sword Swallower”

Added Jan 31 2023

Bea Griffin “Handless Marvel”

Added Oct 23 2022

Betty Lou Williams Photo Poster Stamps

Added Sep 4 2022

La Vonda “The Smallest Woman In The World”

Added Aug 14 2022

World Wonder Car Museum

Added Aug 13 2022

Medusa Van Allen Smiling In The Arms of Her Brother (?)

Added Apr 17 2022

Very Small Time Sideshow Group

Added Apr 9 2022

Foy Large & Frank Morgner

Added Oct 24 2021

Large and Morgner “An Act That Is Positively Unique”

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

Fifi “Sheep Headed Beauty” Pitchbook (4 pages)

Added May 23 2021

Jean “Jimmie” Holland, Female Impersonator

Added Oct 4 2020

Unidentified Alligator-Skinned Boy

Added Oct 3 2020

Americo “Indian Rubber Man”

Added Sep 27 2020

Laurello Pitchbook from Dreamland, Coney Island

Added Sep 26 2020

Lew Alter’s Sideshow Group with Schlitzie

Added Jul 29 2020

RAY MARSH BRYDON’s Store Show, 1946

Added Dec 17 2019

Rosa Lee “Armless Wonder” (Handcolored Photo)

Added Aug 4 2019

Store Show “Oddities On Parade Museum” In Phoenix, Arizona

Added May 27 2019

Tex Sullivan & Lorraine “Western Novelty” Act

Added May 5 2019

Jack Earle, Sideshow Giant & San Francisco Chef

Added Aug 15 2018

Alex Linton Swallows Four 27-Inch Blades

Added Aug 15 2018

World’s Fattest Man, 829 LBS. Single-O Bannerline

Added Aug 14 2018

Ringing Brothers Sideshow Bally With Daisy & Tiny Earles (Doll Family)

Added Aug 14 2018

Rosa Lee “Armless Wonder” Pitchbook (Four Pages)

Added Apr 29 2018

Monkey Speedway Banner In E.M. Caldwell’s Studio

Added Apr 8 2018

Tiny Dollita, “That Atomic Bomb of Entertainment”

Added Feb 5 2017

Little Donnie “The Upside Down Boy”

Added Feb 5 2017

Schork & Schaffer (Hubert’s Museum) Bottle Opener Advertising Piece

Added Jan 8 2017

Wesley Upperman “Half-Boy” Bannerline on Biller Brothers Circus Sideshow

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

Clico “The Dancing Bushman” with Minstrel Band on Bally Platform

Added Apr 17 2016

Grace McDaniel, ca. 1928

Added Mar 21 2016

Grace McDaniel and Son Elmer, ca. 1928

Added Mar 21 2016

Charles W. Wolf, Indian Chief Sunny Sky & Smoking Dog

Added Mar 19 2016

Gibbs Sisters Conjoined Twins Bannerline

Added Jan 10 2016

Souvenir of The Flea Circus

Added Sep 27 2015

William Heckler Pitch Book (4 Pages)

Added Sep 14 2015

Leroy Heckler at Hubert’s Museum (4 Pages)

Added Sep 14 2015

Roy Heckler, 18th Year at Hubert’s (4 Pages)

Added Sep 14 2015

Professor Roy Heckler (4 Pages)

Added Sep 14 2015

Johnny Nugent

Added Sep 12 2015

Niagara Fall Museum & Penny Arcade

Added Aug 30 2015

Siah Khan

Added Aug 23 2015

Siah Khan

Added Aug 23 2015

Siah Khan

Added Aug 23 2015

Ratoucheff Circus Midgets

Added Aug 16 2015

Ray Myers

Added Jul 25 2015

Sam Houston’s Museum Beautiful

Added Jul 12 2015

Francesco A. Lentini

Added Apr 18 2015

Georgia Wilkinson “Armless Artist”

Added Apr 5 2015

Souvenir of Zandau “The Quarter Boy”

Added Mar 30 2015

Hoppie, The Frog Boy (2 Pages)

Added Mar 28 2015

Robert Huddleston “Pony Boy”

Added Mar 28 2015

Souvenir of The Pony Boy [v.2] (4 Pages)

Added Mar 28 2015

Nate Eagle

Added Mar 25 2015

Johann Petursson & Doll Family

Added Mar 25 2015

Fred and Frieda Fischer with Harry Doll

Added Mar 1 2015

Jack Earle “A King-Size Kibitzer”

Added Feb 25 2015

Robert Ripley

Added Feb 25 2015

Tanit-Ikao “The Great Woman Indian Fakir” 3-Color Pitchbook (10 Pages)

Added Jan 9 2015

Johann K. Petursson

Added Oct 28 2014

Johnny Eck & Friends

Added Oct 24 2014

Clifford Thompson on Cole Brothers Clyde Beatty Circus Sideshow

Added Oct 22 2014

Bob Melvin, “The Man with Two Faces”

Added Oct 21 2014

Leona Young

Added Oct 21 2014

Vernon Goins

Added Sep 27 2014

E.H. Caldwell Advertisement in Billboard, 1949

Added Sep 13 2014

Mlle. Janet “Snake Charmer”

Added Sep 12 2014

Sadie Williams Anderson

Added Aug 17 2014

Andy Briskie On Carson & Barnes Circus

Added Jul 31 2014

Eko and Iko

Added Jul 13 2014

“Shoot-A-Photo” Coney Island

Added Jul 13 2014

[Rosa Lee] Armless & Harmless Pitchbook (4 Pages)

Added Jun 28 2014

Martha Morris

Added Jun 28 2014

A Map To Johann K. Petursson “Viking Giant’s” Trailer

Added Jun 23 2014

Clifford Thompson

Added Jun 22 2014

Life History of Cliff Thompson (4 pages)

Added Jun 22 2014

Intimate Loves and Lives of the Hilton Sisters (52 Pages)

Added Jun 21 2014

Martha Morris, The Life History of The Armless Wonder (4 Pages)

Added Jun 21 2014

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

Added Jun 21 2014

Freda K. Pushnik, “Photo and Story”

Added Apr 26 2014

“Biographical Sketch of SERPENTINA” [v.2] (4 Pages)

Added Apr 26 2014