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New European Dime Museum Handbill

Added Jul 31 2017

Prof. Morris Equine & Canine Paradox

Added Jul 30 2017

A Night At Coney Island “Congress of Living Freaks” Stage Show

Added Jul 30 2017

Carter’s Southern Museum with Santa Fe Giant and Double Headed Child

Added Jul 29 2017

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

Added Jul 29 2017

NY Museum of Anatomy Broadside

Added Jul 16 2017

Laloo Handbill from 1893 (Two-Sided)

Added Mar 5 2017

Roving Frank’s Band of English Romany Gypsies Tradecard

Added Feb 7 2017

Za-Za Frazee “World’s Greatest Female Freak”

Added Feb 6 2017

Stanhope & Epstean’s New Dime Museum Handbill

Added Jan 8 2017

Singer’s Congress of Human Freaks Letterhead

Added Nov 6 2016

Austin & Stone Museum Program, 1895

Added Sep 24 2016

“Mummified Curiosities” The Nelson Supply House, The New Latest List No. 10 (16 Pages)

Added Sep 11 2016

Colonel Steere and Wife Pitchbook (24 Pages)

Added Jul 10 2016

Edith Clifford “How To Become A Sword Swallower”

Added Jul 7 2016

Jolly Dolly “Secrets Of A Fat Girl”

Added Jul 4 2016

Betty Lou Williams Pitchbook (In Her Early 20’s)

Added Jul 4 2016

Brown Brothers Big Society Circus

Added Apr 17 2016

Rose’s Royal Midgets Playbill/Program (4 Pages)

Added Apr 11 2016

Anna John Budd “Nature’s Interrogation” (4 Pages)

Added Mar 20 2016

Aileen “Double-Bodied Wonder” Half-And-Half (4 Pages)

Added Mar 20 2016

Barnum Hippodrome Concert Tradecard

Added Mar 20 2016

“Barnum Says So” Concert Tradecard

Added Mar 20 2016

Aileen and Claude Half-And-Half Pitchbook (4 Pages)

Added Mar 19 2016

Life of Issac W. Sprague “The Living Skeleton” (18 Pages)

Added Mar 19 2016

The Autobiography of Miss Ann E. Leak (40 Pages)

Added Mar 19 2016

Lucio & Simplicio Godino, Pitchbook (4 Pages)

Added Nov 1 2015

Violet & Daisy Hilton, 1953 at “The Blue Crystal Nite Club”

Added Nov 1 2015

Hilton Sisters Vaudeville Handbill

Added Oct 31 2015

Chang-Eng Broadside

Added Oct 18 2015

Life History of Count Olaf (Four Pages)

Added Oct 18 2015

Jacob’s Royal Museum & Unique Novelty Co.

Added Oct 17 2015

Chatham Museum Handbill

Added Oct 17 2015

Bertolotto’s Educated Fleas, in Saratoga Springs, 1856

Added Oct 17 2015

Prof. Heckler’s “PULI-COLOGY” (16 Pages)

Added Sep 27 2015

John C. Ruhl Trained Fleas at Hubert’s (4 Pages)

Added Sep 27 2015

Hubert’s Museum Trained Fleas (4 Pages)

Added Sep 27 2015

William Heckler At Dreamland (4 Pages)

Added Sep 27 2015

William Heckler Pitch Book (4 Pages)

Added Sep 14 2015

William Heckler at Willow Grove Park (4 Pages)

Added Sep 14 2015

William Heckler’s Trained Fleas At Hubert’s Museum (4 Pages)

Added Sep 14 2015

Leroy Heckler at Hubert’s Museum (4 Pages)

Added Sep 14 2015

Leroy Heckler, 15th Year 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

Niagara Falls Museum Flyer

Added Sep 8 2015

Kohl & Middleton’s Dime Museum Fat Convention

Added Sep 8 2015

Dime Museum Tradecard

Added Sep 7 2015

Wood’s Museum of Wonders

Added Sep 6 2015

Wood’s (& Banvard’s) Museum Cigarette Card

Added Sep 5 2015

European Dime Museum Envelope

Added Sep 5 2015

Punch & Judy at Herzog’s Dime Museum

Added Aug 30 2015

Indianapolis Dime Museum

Added Aug 30 2015

The Wonderful Sacred Ox Rajah (V.1)

Added Aug 30 2015

Eden Musee “Storming Constantinople”

Added Aug 30 2015

Genie Weeks [Jeanie Tomaini] (4-Pages)

Added Aug 29 2015

Epstein’s New Dime Museum

Added Aug 23 2015

Kohl & Middleton’s Dime Museum Equilibrist

Added Jul 26 2015

Professor Bartholomew’s “The Equine Paradox” (20 Pages)

Added Jul 26 2015

My Life Story, by Gilbert Reichert (4 Pages)

Added Jul 26 2015

Roxana “The Living Hermaphrodite” (4 Pages)

Added Jul 26 2015

Tom Thumb & Wife, Commodore Nutt & Minnie Warren Handbill

Added Jul 26 2015

Dora Dawson “The Double-Voiced Singer”

Added Jul 19 2015

Admiral Dot’s London Museum

Added Jul 19 2015

The World’s Museum & Theatre

Added Jul 12 2015

Ajeeb “The Chess Playing Automaton”

Added May 3 2015

Hungarian Gipsy Band at Eden Musee

Added May 3 2015

Eden Musee Tradecard

Added May 3 2015

Kohl & Middleton’s Grand Bird Exhibition

Added May 3 2015

Automaton from Barnum’s Travelling Museum

Added May 3 2015

Kohl & MIddleton’s with Irish Giant & Giantess

Added Apr 9 2015

Souvenir of The Pony Boy [v.1] (4 Pages)

Added Mar 28 2015

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

Added Mar 28 2015

Norbu “The Almost Human Gorilla”

Added Mar 1 2015

Norbu “The Almost Human Gorilla” (3 Pages)

Added Feb 28 2015

Dr. Warner Presents Waino and Plutano “Wild Men Of Borneo

Added Jan 18 2015

Vlacke Vark: P.T. Barnum’s Mammmoth Aggregation

Added Jan 18 2015

Uffner Presents: Capt. Bates, Anna Swan, Admiral Dot, Murray Triplets

Added Jan 18 2015

“A Dangerous Pastime” Snake-Enchantress

Added Jan 17 2015

“Some of Barnum’s Freaks”

Added Jan 17 2015

Clara Snell

Added Jan 17 2015

Major Edson “Lususnatura”

Added Jan 9 2015

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

Added Jan 9 2015

Monsieur Gouffe “Celebrated Man-Monkey”

Added Jan 8 2015

Prince Randion Flyer

Added Jan 4 2015

Pond’s Metropolitan Stock Group

Added Oct 24 2014

Great Barlow Minstrels Letterhead

Added Oct 24 2014

Austin and Stone’s Museum

Added Oct 19 2014

Paul-Pauline LaPage “Double-Bodied Woman”

Added Oct 19 2014

Johnny Eck Pitchbook Repro (4 Pages)

Added Oct 19 2014

Johnny Eck Pitchbook (4 Pages)

Added Oct 18 2014

Lulu “The Man Bird”

Added Oct 18 2014

Barnum’s American Museum Postal Cover

Added Oct 6 2014

Barnum’s American Museum

Added Oct 6 2014

Barnum’s Hobby

Added Oct 5 2014

How I Became The Tattoo Queen (8 Pages)

Added Sep 29 2014

Life and History of Madame Howard (4 Pages)

Added Sep 29 2014

The Theatrum at Burnell & Prescott’s Dime Museum with Ann Leake “Armless Girl” and Issac Sprague “Human Skeleton” (4 Pages)

Added Sep 28 2014

Life of Col. Routh Goshan [Goshen] (70 Pages)

Added Sep 14 2014

Irene Woodward “Life & Adventures”

Added Aug 13 2014

Le Capitaine Costentenus

Added Aug 13 2014

Jumbo for Smith’s Clinch Back Suspenders

Added Aug 11 2014

Jumbo Immobilized by J&P COATS Thread

Added Aug 11 2014

Jumbo Tied In J&P COATS Thread

Added Aug 11 2014

Jumbo Washed by Ivorine Soap

Added Aug 11 2014

Jumbo Must Go

Added Aug 11 2014

Jumbo with his new friends at Madison Square Garden

Added Aug 11 2014

Jumbo: Prospective Fun For The Children

Added Aug 11 2014

Jumbo for Hartford Sewing Machine

Added Aug 11 2014

Jumbo with his new friends at Madison Square Garden

Added Aug 11 2014

Jumbo For Hartford Sewing Machine

Added Aug 11 2014

Jumbo At The Opera

Added Aug 11 2014

Jumbo At Coney Island

Added Aug 11 2014

Jumbo’s Arrival

Added Aug 11 2014

Jumbo Aesthetic (with Oscar Wilde)

Added Aug 11 2014

Jumbo At The Bar

Added Aug 11 2014

Jumbo Objects To Being Put In Irons

Added Aug 11 2014

Jumbo Trade-Card

Added Aug 6 2014

Weighing Barnum’s White Elephant

Added Aug 6 2014

Jumbo “The Children’s Friend At The Zoo”

Added Aug 6 2014

Jumbo “The Children’s Friend In Danger”

Added Aug 6 2014

Jumbo “The Children’s Friend Killed”

Added Aug 6 2014

Jumbo Feeds Baby Castoria

Added Aug 4 2014

Jumbo With Moving Ear

Added Jul 31 2014

Jumbo With Moving Trunk

Added Jul 31 2014

Captain Paul Boyton (4 Pages)

Added Jul 27 2014

What We Know About Waino & Plutano (v.1)

Added Jul 22 2014

What We Know About Waino & Plutano (v.2)

Added Jul 22 2014

What We Know About Waino & Plutano (v.3)

Added Jul 21 2014

Waino & Plutano Broadside

Added Jul 21 2014

Waino & Plutano Broadside

Added Jul 21 2014

What We Know About Waino & Plutano (16 Pages)

Added Jul 21 2014

Wild Australian Children Tradecard

Added Jul 16 2014

The Aztec Children

Added Jul 15 2014

New York Clipper Envelope

Added Jul 13 2014

Milly De Arcy & The Rock Python Pitchbook (5 pages)

Added Jul 11 2014

The Great Fishers Letterhead

Added Jul 7 2014

General Tom Thumb’s Three Years’ Tour (146 Pages)

Added Jul 7 2014

Jo Jo “The Dog-Faced Man” (18 Pages)

Added Jun 29 2014

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

Added Jun 28 2014

“Armless Girl” Tradecard Souvenir (Possibly Ann Leak)

Added Jun 27 2014

Rhino Attacked By Lion Advertising P.T. Barnum Show

Added Jun 26 2014

Coney Island Lighthouse

Added Jun 26 2014

“Gang Busters” Show at the 1939 New York World’s Fair

Added Jun 24 2014

Letterhead for John Hix’s “Strange As It Seems” Show, 1939

Added Jun 23 2014

Mondu “The Ninth Wonder of the World” (4 Pages)

Added Jun 23 2014

Something About The Tallest Man and Woman IN The World, Capt. M.V. Bates and Wife (12 Pages)

Added Jun 22 2014

Millie Christine “The Two-Headed Nightingale”

Added Jun 22 2014

Mary & Anna, Honduran Twins (4 pages)

Added Jun 22 2014

The Shields Brothers, The Four Texan Giants (12 Pages)

Added Jun 22 2014

Life History of Cliff Thompson (4 pages)

Added Jun 22 2014

Eddie Masher, His Own Story & Observations (4 Pages)

Added Jun 22 2014

Chang & Eng “Life of the Siamese Twins” (91 Pages)

Added Jun 22 2014

Souvenir Life History of Rose’s Royal Midgets (12 Pages)

Added Jun 22 2014

Life Story of Mary & Margaret Gibb (V1., 4 Pages)

Added Jun 21 2014

Gottlieb & Elfrieda Fischer “Biography of the Giant Couple”

Added Jun 21 2014

AGNA, The Man Woman (10 Pages)

Added Jun 21 2014

Medusa Van Allen Pitchbook [Ver. 1] (4 Pages)

Added Jun 21 2014

Medusa Van Allen Pitchbook [Ver. 2] (4 Pages)

Added Jun 21 2014

Major N.G.W. Winner and Wife [Ver. 2] (32 Pages)

Added Jun 21 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

The Cardiff Giant: A Few Facts Concerning Its History (4 pages)

Added Jun 21 2014

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

Added Jun 21 2014

Giraffe-Neck Women From Burma (8 pages)

Added Jun 21 2014

Biography Of Shadow Harry V. Lewis (4 Pages)

Added Jun 21 2014

Benjamin G. Green “The Alligator Skin Man” (4 Pages)

Added Jun 21 2014

“Life Story of Frank Worden, The Ossified Man” (4 Pages)

Added May 4 2014

Jones Twins Pitchbook “Two Babies One One Body” (4 Pages)

Added May 4 2014

“The Circassian Girl, Zalumma Agra” PITCHBOOK (16 Pages)

Added Apr 26 2014

Freda K. Pushnik, “Photo and Story”

Added Apr 26 2014

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

Added Apr 26 2014

“Life History of Francesco A. Lentini” (4 Pages)

Added Apr 26 2014

Biography of Prince Randion (4 Pages)

Added Apr 26 2014

“My Life’s History, Miss Gabriele” (Four Pages)

Added Apr 26 2014

Life Story of Kitty Smith (4 Pages)

Added Apr 26 2014

Alice “The Alligator Girl” Pitchbook (4 Pages)

Added Apr 26 2014

Forrest Layman’s Pitchbook (4 Pages)

Added Apr 16 2014

“Facts In The Life of Jack Earle World’s Tallest Man” (4 pages)

Added Apr 16 2014

“The Life of A.J. Murphy” Pitchbook (12 Pages)

Added Apr 16 2014

Malinda Maxey

Added Apr 5 2014

Pitchbook for Betty MacGregor “Stella”(4 Pages)

Added Apr 4 2014

Femme A Barbe

Added Apr 1 2014

Annie Jones/Admiral Dot Pitchbook (20 Pages)

Added Mar 24 2014

Annie Jones/Admiral Dot Pamphlet (20 Pages)

Added Mar 24 2014

Annie Jones “Infant Esau” & Miss Anna Leak

Added Mar 24 2014

Letterhead from Dufour & Rogers, NY World’s Fair 1939

Added Mar 23 2014

Jas. H. Wallick & His Famous Acting Horse

Added Mar 17 2014

Prof. D.M. Bristol: 20,000 Dollar Mule

Added Mar 17 2014

Prof. D.M. Bristol: Mattie Catching Ball

Added Mar 17 2014

Prof. D.M. Bristol: Denver Enjoying Himself

Added Mar 17 2014

D.M. Bristol’s Mattie

Added Mar 17 2014

Prof. Bristol’s HORNET Leaping 4 Horses

Added Mar 17 2014

Millie-Christine Tradecard

Added Mar 11 2014

Jean and Jacques Libbera Pitchbook (4 Pages)

Added Mar 9 2014