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The Red Demons by Barnello (24 Pages)

Added May 24 2025

Biographical Sketch of Jean Libbera (4 Pages)

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Kohl & Middleton’s Dime Museum

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Added Dec 29 2024

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Added Dec 29 2024

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Alice “The Alligator Skin Girl”

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Otto Martin Locke “Reptiles, Snakes, Animals, Birds”

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A Beautiful Little Blood Mare

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Dan J. Major “Living Skeleton” Handbill

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Added Oct 26 2024

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Captain & Mrs. M.V. Bates

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Harper’s Parlor Circus Songster

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Kee-Bo “The Fire Child”

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Pocahontas Lilliputian Opera

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Lilliputians Frank Mite & Lucia Zarate

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Lucia Zarate & General Mite Tradecard

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Tom Thumb & Co. Tradecard

Added Jan 7 2024

Wild Woman “Florida Demon” Handbill

Added Jan 7 2024

Leonard Trask Pitchbook (v.4)

Added Jan 6 2024

Leonard Trask Pitchbook (v.3) (48-Pages)

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Leonard Trask Pamphlet (v.2) (48-Pages)

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Added Jan 1 2024

Liliputian Opera Flyer

Added Jan 1 2024

Deakin’s Opera Co. “Scene From Jack The Giant Killer”

Added Jan 1 2024

Deakin’s Opera Co. “Scene From Jack The Giant Killer”

Added Jan 1 2024

Zoe Meleke & Her Troupe Of Trained Canaries

Added Jan 1 2024

Tom Thumb’s Museum: Gen.l Thumb and His Charming Wife

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Tom Thumb’s Museum: Zoe Meleke

Added Jan 1 2024

Tom Thumb’s Museum: Whiston & His Olio of Oddities

Added Jan 1 2024

Tom Thumb’s Museum: Major E. Newell

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Marvelous Midget, Tom Thumb’s Museum

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Tom Thumb & Troupe

Added Jan 1 2024

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Added Jan 1 2024

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Admiral Dot Tradecard/Ticket

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Admiral Dot & The French Giant

Added Dec 31 2023

Admiral Dot’s Beautiful Pony Equipage

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Admiral Dot Pitchbook (20 Pages)

Added Dec 31 2023

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Eli Bowen Broadside, As The Wild Man

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Three-Headed Man & Bearded Circassian

Added Aug 26 2023

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Added Aug 21 2023

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Added Aug 21 2023

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Added Aug 20 2023

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Added Aug 19 2023

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James-Jennette

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Billy Flake “The King of Sword Swallowers”

Added Jul 16 2023

Julius Shuster “Pick-Up Artist”

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Added Jun 24 2023

Jolly Trixie On A Diamond-Shaped Trade Card

Added May 27 2023

Life of Miss Millie Lammar, The Beautiful Ceylonesse Mind Reader

Added May 27 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

Commodore Foote & Sister Envelope

Added Mar 19 2023

Koriana Souvenir With Snake Skin

Added Jan 15 2023

Frank Lentini Pitchsheet

Added Nov 24 2022

Frank LENTINI & CHANDLER Letterhead, 1912

Added Oct 23 2022

Betty Lou Williams Pitchbook (4-Pages)

Added Sep 5 2022

Betty Lue Williams “World’s Greatest Wonder”

Added Sep 4 2022

Ronnie & Donnie Galyon Pitchbook (4 Pages)

Added Sep 4 2022

Jumbo’s Introduction To Arrow Oysters

Added Aug 28 2022

Quedah, Wooly Mammoth

Added Aug 28 2022

Paradise Review Girlshow on Cetlin & Wilson

Added Aug 14 2022

Howard “The Lobster Boy” Pitchbook (4 pages)

Added Apr 30 2022

Joseph Gantonio “The Young Italian Giant”

Added Apr 23 2022

Miss Melius “Astonishing Giantess”

Added Apr 23 2022

Mr. W. Campbell “The Scottish Giant”

Added Apr 23 2022

J.J. Brice “French Giant”

Added Apr 23 2022

Herr Winklemeier, “Austrian Giant”

Added Apr 23 2022

Signor Bertolotto, The Celebrated Flea Civilizer

Added Apr 23 2022

Signor Bertolotto Reopened at 238 Regents

Added Apr 23 2022

Signor Bertolotto at 209 Regents Street

Added Apr 23 2022

Industrious Fleas [Bertolotto]

Added Apr 23 2022

Herr Lidusdroph’s Russian Fleas in London, 1851

Added Apr 23 2022

Signor Bertolotto at 209 Regents Street

Added Apr 23 2022

Momence Freakshow-Store Show

Added Apr 23 2022

Cat Show with Signor Giovanni’s Performing Flock of Canary Birds

Added Apr 17 2022

Rolling Thunder “The Mysterious Wonder”

Added Apr 17 2022

Handbill for Millie-Christine in W.C. Coup’s EQUESCURRICULUM

Added Apr 10 2022

Signor Bertolotto’s Flea Circus “Removed to 238 Regent Street”

Added Apr 9 2022

A Giant Living Child “1 Yr Old, 3 Ft Tall, 60 Lbs.”

Added Apr 9 2022

Drygoods Tradecard Advertising The Circus

Added Apr 3 2022

Herr Lidusdroph’s Russian Fleas, 1852

Added Apr 3 2022

Wortley Royal Waxwork

Added Jan 10 2022

Two Children United Handbill (1833)

Added Dec 5 2021

Large and Morgner “An Act That Is Positively Unique”

Added Oct 24 2021

Large & Morgner “Two Men and Two Legs”

Added Oct 24 2021

Lives of Armond Carloman “The Piebald Youth” and Fortune Clofulia “The Gorilla Boy” (16-Pages)

Added Oct 16 2021

Turtle George (Williams) Songster “O, Take Me Back To Baltimore”

Added Oct 11 2021

History of S.A. Shields & Wife Pitchbook (16 Pages)

Added Jun 13 2021

Kiki and Bobo “Monkey People” Pitchbook (2-Pages)

Added Jun 6 2021

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

Added Jun 6 2021

Kodet’s Harlem Museum Letterhead

Added Jun 4 2021

Fifi “Sheep Headed Beauty” Pitchbook (4 pages)

Added May 23 2021

Francies Benton “One Body––Two People” Pitchbook (4-Pages)

Added May 23 2021

Boston Museum Tradecard with White Elephant and Minstrels

Added May 16 2021

The Sacred Ox Rajah Ad Card (V.2)

Added May 15 2021

Edith Clifford Sheet Music for “The Eagle And The Girl”

Added Feb 27 2021

Vaudeville & Circus Goods Company (18 Pages)

Added Oct 3 2020

Mary Belle “Armless Artist”

Added Sep 27 2020

Snake King Letterhead & Letter

Added Jul 26 2020

Rosa Lee “Armless Wonder” Pitchbook [Four Pages, v.2]

Added Aug 4 2019

Big Winnie Johnson, At The Eden Musee, Indianapolis

Added Jul 28 2019

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

Added Jul 28 2019

Adam Forepaugh’s World-Famed Zoological Congress

Added Jul 7 2019

Lala Coolah “Man-Venus” or “Half-Man, Half Woman” Pitchbook (4 Pages)

Added May 28 2019

Signor Bertolotto’s Flea Circus In Washington, DC, 1877

Added May 12 2019

The Seven Sutherland Sisters Advertising Handbill

Added Apr 28 2019

Wood’s Museum Handbill, 1873

Added Mar 10 2019

History of Unzie (8 Pages)

Added May 2 2018

Rosa Lee “Armless Wonder” Pitchbook (Four Pages)

Added Apr 29 2018

Jo Jo, The Human Skye Terrier

Added Aug 5 2017