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19th-CENTURY PHOTO FORMATS

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Rudolph Ivanovich as a Wildman in Chains

Added Mar 18 2023

Mary J. Powers “The Kentucky Giantess”

Added Feb 16 2023

Ida Williams

Added Feb 16 2023

Unidentified Fat Woman With A Yellow Hat

Added Feb 16 2023

Ada Briggs, Leaning

Added Feb 15 2023

John & Hannah Battersby

Added Feb 12 2023

Frank Williams

Added Feb 12 2023

Ida Williams

Added Feb 12 2023

John H. Craig (Alias Powers) with Zela Ayres

Added Jan 31 2023

Leah Hallet, Snake Handler

Added Jan 21 2023

Madam Zara “Snake Enchantress”

Added Jan 15 2023

Miss Maxine “Snake Enchantress”

Added Jan 15 2023

Clara Jones “Snake Enchantress”

Added Jan 15 2023

Mrs. Morton, Ringling “Snake Charmer”

Added Jan 15 2023

Unidentified Snake Girl in Minstrel Show

Added Jan 15 2023

Amy Arlington, “Snake Enchantress,” In Repose

Added Jan 15 2023

Prof. H.S. McGuire and His Educated Horses

Added Nov 25 2022

George Williams “Turtle Boy” With Gun

Added Oct 25 2022

George Williams “Turtle Boy”

Added Oct 25 2022

George Williams “Turtle Boy”

Added Oct 25 2022

Barney Nelson

Added Oct 25 2022

Unidentified Young Man In A Cart

Added Oct 23 2022

Unidentified Handicapped, Bowler-Hatted Man in Cart

Added Oct 9 2022

John T. Owens, and Daughter

Added Oct 9 2022

John T. Owens and Wife Matilda

Added Oct 9 2022

Captain Lewando Baldwin

Added Oct 8 2022

Lewando Baldwin

Added Oct 8 2022

W.C. Williams

Added Sep 26 2022

Boy On Cart With Useless Legs

Added Sep 26 2022

Lewando Baldwin & Wife

Added Sep 26 2022

C.H. Unthan “Armless Boy”

Added Sep 25 2022

C.H. Unthan “Armless”

Added Sep 25 2022

Charles Tripp, Standing With His Topcoat On, 1893

Added Sep 25 2022

Charles Tripp, With Knife & Fork, 1890

Added Sep 25 2022

Charles Tripp, With Knife & Fork

Added Sep 25 2022

Charles B. Tripp, Shirtless, 1888

Added Sep 25 2022

Charles Tripp, 1887

Added Sep 25 2022

Charles Tripp, 1885

Added Sep 25 2022

Eli Bowen, Wife and Son

Added Sep 25 2022

Eli Bowen And Manager at Norman’s Museum

Added Sep 25 2022

Master Eli Bowen

Added Sep 18 2022

Eli Bowen with his Wife

Added Sep 18 2022

Eli Bowen, Wife and Son

Added Sep 18 2022

Eli Bowen And Manager at Norman’s Museum

Added Sep 18 2022

Randion With His Attendants

Added Sep 5 2022

Marie DeVere “Sword Swallower”

Added Sep 5 2022

The Korean Twins

Added Sep 4 2022

Korean Twins With Their Manager

Added Sep 4 2022

Henrietta Moritz “Liliputian Queen”

Added Sep 3 2022

Burmese Midgets, Fatma & Smaun

Added Sep 3 2022

Miss Millie Howe “Armless Lady”

Added Sep 3 2022

Julia Pastrana

Added Sep 1 2022

George Stall “Wildman”

Added Sep 1 2022

Unidentified Young Tattooed Man

Added Aug 28 2022

Captain Harry Decoursey, Tattooed Man

Added Aug 28 2022

Craniofacial Deformity, Dr. Ochi Collection

Added Aug 28 2022

Ella Harper “Camel Girl”

Added Aug 28 2022

Unidentified Armless Woman, Needlepointing

Added Aug 28 2022

Chiquita!

Added Aug 14 2022

Juan & Martina de la Cruz, ages 32 & 36

Added Jun 29 2022

Doly Barry “Vocalist and Dancer” by Charles Eisenmann

Added Jun 26 2022

Amy Arlington “And Her Den Of Snakes”

Added Jun 26 2022

Madam DeBarcsy “Bearded Woman” in Russia

Added Jun 12 2022

Madam DeBarcsy “Bearded Woman” in Russia

Added Jun 12 2022

Annie Jones, 17-18 years old

Added Jun 12 2022

Annie Jones, With Her Parents, at 13 years old

Added Jun 12 2022

Annie Jones, Age 13

Added Jun 12 2022

Baby Sutton

Added Jun 12 2022

George Shields “Texas Giant”

Added Jun 12 2022

Frank Henderson “Legless Cart Rider”

Added Jun 12 2022

Lewis Wilkins “A Giant’s Hands”

Added Apr 30 2022

G.W. Anderson “Ossified”

Added Apr 25 2022

Adolph-Rudolph Bogus Siamese Twins Boudoir Card

Added Apr 9 2022

Myrtle Corbin, “Four-Legged Woman,” In Her 30’s

Added Jan 10 2022

Miss Naomi Sutherland

Added Dec 5 2021

Mrs. A. Myers “Bearded Lady”

Added Nov 7 2021

[Not] Walters “The Blue Man”

Added Nov 7 2021

Laura “Bearded Woman”

Added Nov 7 2021

Annie Jones as a Pre-Teenager

Added Nov 7 2021

Eugene Feralto

Added Nov 7 2021

Eugene Feralto, Living Skeleton & Strongman

Added Nov 7 2021

Eugene Feralto, Strongman & Living Skeleton

Added Nov 7 2021

Rattlesnake Pete

Added Nov 7 2021

Lucius Norval Monroe “Ossified” With Mr. Vanderhoo

Added Oct 30 2021

Lucius Norval Monroe “Ossified” With His Valet Mr. Vanderhoo

Added Oct 30 2021

Lucius Norval Monroe “Ossified” With His Valet Mr. Vanderhoo

Added Oct 30 2021

Ann E. Leak with Her Embroidery, ca. 1895

Added Oct 24 2021

Ann E. Leak, 1867

Added Oct 24 2021

Ann E. Leak Thompson Death Card, 1899

Added Oct 24 2021

Ann E. Leak Thompson, 1876

Added Oct 24 2021

Chevalier Cliquot and Wife

Added Oct 24 2021

Fanny Mills “The Ohio Big Foot Girl” Compliments of Minor & Bradley, Waterbury, Conn.

Added Oct 24 2021

Tocci Brothers with Their Younger Brother

Added Oct 24 2021

Fanny Mills “Ohio Bigfoot Girl”

Added Oct 24 2021

Chauncey Morlan & Wife Annie

Added Oct 24 2021

Jo Jo “The Dog-Faced Man”

Added Oct 24 2021

Grace Gilbert “Bearded Woman”

Added Oct 10 2021

Willie Kelton Limbless Wildman

Added Oct 10 2021

Unidentified African-American Wildman by Eisenmann

Added Oct 9 2021

Emma Groves “Bearded Woman”

Added Oct 9 2021

The New York Hippodrome in 1908-1909

Added May 2 2021

Unidentified Fat Lady

Added Oct 3 2020

Sword-Swallower Chevalier Cliquot (In Stockholm)

Added Jul 22 2020

Seven Sutherland Sisters Advertising Poster

Added May 24 2020

Unidentified Limbless Dwarf

Added May 11 2020

Benjamin Franklin “Armless & Legless Soldier”

Added May 11 2020

Laloo, by Obermüller & Kern

Added May 10 2020

The Iron Pier, Coney Island

Added May 10 2020

Chatham Square Museum Facade, ca. 1888

Added Mar 15 2020

Rosa Lee “Armless Wonder” (Handcolored Photo)

Added Aug 4 2019

Gaddah, “The American Elephant Man” by Wendt

Added Jul 24 2019

Barnello “Human Volcano”

Added May 19 2019

Unidentified English Big-Head Boy

Added May 14 2019

Paul Desmuke, Writing With His Toes

Added May 5 2019

Billy Wells “Iron Skull Man”

Added Mar 12 2019

Ringling Brothers Barnum Bailey 1950 Sideshow Cast At Madison Square Garden

Added Mar 9 2019

Rob Roy “Albino”

Added Mar 3 2019

The Onondaga Giant [Cardiff Giant]

Added Mar 3 2019

Old Plantation Minstrel Showfront with Merey “The Armless Wonder” and Her Father

Added Mar 3 2019

Merey “The Armless Wonder” and Her Father In Front Of Their Showfront

Added Mar 3 2019

An Incredible Nelson Supply Company Giant Mummy in Nebraska

Added Jul 22 2018

Edgar W. Pratt “Ossified Man”

Added Apr 7 2018

Eli Bowen, Wife, Children and Pet Goat

Added Jan 7 2018

Wild Rose “The Yucatan Wonder”

Added Feb 21 2017

Unidentified Snake Enchantress with her decorated SNAKES Box

Added Feb 5 2017

The Coney Island Dreamland Social Club by Edward J. Kelty, 1923

Added Nov 6 2016

Facade of The Coney Island Dreamland Circus Sideshow in 1921

Added Nov 6 2016

The Wonderful Sacred Ox Rajah Photograph

Added Nov 5 2016

Unusual Victor-Victoria “Half-Man, Half-Woman” Edward Kelty Photo

Added Nov 5 2016

Lucy Jones “Camel Girl”

Added Sep 25 2016

Tomaso “Human Pincushion”

Added Jul 10 2016

Major Gantz and His Enormous Watermelon, Age 34

Added Jul 9 2016

Zip & Ashbury Benjamin

Added Jul 9 2016

Zip & Ashbury Benjamin

Added Jul 8 2016

Belle Morrison “The Human Eel,” Woman Escape Artist

Added Jul 8 2016

Charles Felu, Armless Artist Painting A Self Portrait

Added May 29 2016

Issac Stake, Age 30

Added May 29 2016

Issac Stake, Age 33

Added May 29 2016

Issac Stake

Added May 29 2016

Isaac Stake, Legless Cart Driver

Added May 29 2016

Leonard Trask “The Wonderful Invalid”

Added May 29 2016

Joe Thibault “The Big-Fingered Boy”

Added Apr 17 2016

Princess Lucy and Her Little House

Added Apr 17 2016

Portrait of Lionel “The Lion-Faced Boy”

Added Apr 17 2016

Joseph & Barbara Leffler Studio Portrait, Albino Brother & Sister

Added Apr 16 2016

F.W. Glasier Photo of Ringling Brothers[?] Sideshow

Added Apr 13 2016

Mlle. Clifford, Sword Swallower, Glamour Portrait

Added Apr 11 2016

The Jones “Twin Babies With One Body,” In A Beautiful Pose

Added Apr 11 2016

Jolly Joe by Frank WENDT

Added Apr 11 2016

Krao, As A Young, Slim, Good-looking Hairy Lady

Added Apr 10 2016

George Stall “George Mex” Wildman Mugging

Added Mar 19 2016

George Williams “Turtle Boy”

Added Mar 19 2016

Lewando Baldwin by Charles Eisenmann

Added Mar 19 2016

A Circassian Woman Reading A Love Letter

Added Mar 19 2016

Martha Morris, “Armless Artist” As A Young Girl

Added Mar 19 2016

Rosa and Josefa, The Blazek Twins

Added Dec 13 2015

Radica and Doodica “The Orissa Twins” & Prince Colibri

Added Dec 13 2015

Radica and Doodica, Rare and Beautiful

Added Nov 9 2015

Korean Twins, Liu Soon and Liu Tang San

Added Nov 1 2015

Carrie Akers

Added Oct 18 2015

Kickapoo Medicine Show Performer

Added Oct 17 2015

Kick-A-Poo Indian Medicine Show

Added Oct 17 2015

Latta Fowler, Spiritualist

Added Oct 17 2015

E.M. Worth’s Man Mummy From Thebes

Added Sep 8 2015

Unknown Female Sword-Swallower

Added Sep 6 2015

E.M. Worth’s Museum Child Mummy

Added Aug 29 2015

Fred Defrates “Wild Man From Australia”

Added Aug 24 2015

Pearlie Foster

Added Jul 26 2015

Joseph Lucasie

Added Jul 26 2015

Brockton Museum of Anatomy

Added Jul 25 2015

Henrietta Moritz

Added Jul 25 2015

Krao

Added Jul 19 2015

Radica Doodica In Traditional Indian Dress with Their Mother

Added Jul 19 2015

Afghan Warriors

Added Jul 12 2015

Annie Oakley

Added Jul 12 2015

“What Is It?” Feegee Mermaid!

Added May 4 2015

New York Museum of Anatomy Exterior Stereoview

Added May 4 2015

Ka-We-Ba Amazon Giantess

Added May 3 2015

Josephine Myrtle Corbin

Added Apr 19 2015

Josephine Myrtle Corbin

Added Apr 19 2015

Josephine Myrtle Corbin

Added Apr 19 2015

Myrtle Corbin

Added Apr 19 2015

Josephine Myrtle Corbin

Added Apr 19 2015

Myrtle Corbin and Family

Added Apr 19 2015

George Lippert

Added Apr 18 2015

Francesco Lentini

Added Apr 18 2015

Francesco Lentini

Added Apr 18 2015

Francesco Lentini

Added Apr 18 2015

Francesco “Francis” Lentini

Added Apr 18 2015

Francesco Lentini

Added Apr 18 2015

Francesco Lentini

Added Apr 18 2015

Francesco Lentini

Added Apr 18 2015

Madame Howard “Leonine”

Added Apr 5 2015

Madam Taylor

Added Apr 5 2015

Athletic Show “Jack Albright’s Wrestling Arena”

Added Apr 5 2015

Ella Harper “Camel Girl”

Added Apr 4 2015

Carrie Holt

Added Jan 26 2015

Happy Jack Eckert

Added Jan 25 2015

W.H. Stuart & Family

Added Jan 20 2015

Clarence Dale “The Big Head Boy”

Added Jan 20 2015