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MISC. SHOWS

Miscellaneous shows encompasses anything that can’t be categorized elsewhere.

The history of shows is one of variety that can include anything that might amuse.

See Also: Wild West

See Also: Black-Tent Cinema

See Also: Medicine Show

See Also: Illusion Shows

See Also: Motordrome

See Also: Panoramas

See Also: Torture Shows

See Also: Athletic Shows

See Also: Amusement Parks

See Also: World’s Fairs/Expositions

See Also: Electric Shows, X-Ray Shows, Scientific Demonstrations, etc.

Performers in this category:

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Tours of The Sea Show Building

Added May 18 2025

Guerra Mix

Added May 4 2025

Coney Island Sideshow, Surf Avenue, ca. 1915

Added Jan 1 2025

Wonderland Circus Sideshow, Coney Island

Added Dec 31 2024

Thrill Arena, Motordome, Greenhalgh Jackson Production

Added Dec 31 2024

New Zealand Centennial Expo Building

Added Dec 30 2024

Unidentified Tattooed Man, 1933 Century of Progress

Added Dec 30 2024

Arthur Loos & Paul Whitaker

Added Dec 30 2024

Dreamland Circus Sideshow & Stubenbord’s Restaurant

Added Dec 30 2024

Mimi Garneau’s Exhibitor’s Pass For The 1937 Great Lakes Expo Ripley’s Show

Added Dec 29 2024

E.J. Perry Silhouettist Silouette, 1909

Added Dec 28 2024

Stauch’s Coney Island “A Thing of Beauty”

Added Dec 28 2024

Rivero And Their Troupe “Globe of Death”

Added Dec 27 2024

Battle of Chateau-Thierry at Coney Island

Added Dec 26 2024

Virginia Reel and Submarine Attacks, Coney Island

Added Dec 26 2024

Dr. Weldon’s Microscope at Scudder’s Museum

Added Dec 25 2024

The Zombie Cafe “Souvenir of Coney Island”

Added Nov 6 2024

Darkest Africa Show At The Century of Progress with Woo Foo

Added Nov 6 2024

Darkest Africa At 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

Docen’s Freak Animal Show at Coney Island

Added Oct 26 2024

Koo Koo, Zip & Schlitzie At Coney

Added Oct 6 2024

Contact Sheet For Unidentified Carnival With Geek, Girl Show and Motordome

Added Aug 11 2024

The Joy Zone at Panama–Pacific International Exposition with SOAKUM

Added Aug 11 2024

Medieval Tortures at Coney Island

Added Aug 5 2024

Alice Sibley, College Student Turned Coney Island Spieler

Added Aug 4 2024

Spidora (From Germany)

Added Aug 4 2024

Chastity Belt Pitchbook from Medieval Tortures Show (6 Pages)

Added Aug 4 2024

Sandy Reed Ringling Circus World Recommendation Letter

Added Aug 4 2024

Al Flosso “The Coney Island Fakir” Signed Photo

Added Aug 4 2024

Faux Twins, Sisters Ines and Dirce “Sorelle Ines e Dirce” [Two-Headed Woman]

Added Mar 30 2024

The Great Jesse James Show

Added Jan 7 2024

Swimming Pool, Steeplechase Park, Coney Island

Added Jan 6 2024

Luck Daredevils, Coney Island

Added Dec 25 2023

Half-Girl On A Swing Illusion

Added Sep 24 2023

Electricia at Allen’s Hippodrome

Added Jul 21 2023

Electricia “The Girl Who Tames Electricity”

Added Jul 21 2023

Eastern Motordrome Shows

Added Jul 20 2023

Save The Coney Island Cyclone Pinback

Added Jul 16 2023

Steeplechase Coney Island Funny Place Pinback

Added Jul 16 2023

Boer War Spectacle Diving Horse at Coney Island

Added May 8 2023

Kafir Kraal, Boer War Spectacle, Coney Island

Added May 8 2023

Helter-Skelter, Luna Park, Coney Island, Embossed

Added May 8 2023

Boer War Spectacular at Coney Island

Added May 8 2023

Boer War Spectacular At Coney Island

Added May 8 2023

Coney Island’s Biggest Fire Disaster

Added May 8 2023

Three Tourists and a Ferris Wheel Tintype

Added Mar 19 2023

Myrna Myrle Clifton “Midget City, 1934”

Added Aug 14 2022

Captain Werner of Midget City, Century of Progress 1934

Added Aug 14 2022

Rolling Thunder “The Mysterious Wonder”

Added Apr 17 2022

Dancing Girls on Australian Sideshow Showfront

Added Apr 3 2022

English(?) Torture Show

Added Jan 10 2022

Streets of Cairo At The Alaska-Yukon Exposition, 1909

Added May 17 2021

Souvenir Hula Dancers Tintype From Coney Island

Added Oct 3 2020

Mysteria (Spidora) Illusion

Added Oct 3 2020

Spider Girl (Spidora)

Added Jul 27 2020

Electorium “The 8th Great Wonder of The World”

Added Jul 25 2020

California Apple Show Monumental Building

Added May 10 2020

The Iron Pier, Coney Island

Added May 10 2020

Galveston Flood Disaster Show Building, Coney Island

Added May 19 2019

An Egyptian Fire Eater, Unidentified Coney Island Performer

Added May 19 2019

Tex Sullivan & Lorraine “Western Novelty” Act

Added May 5 2019

New European Dime Museum Handbill

Added Jul 31 2017

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

Added Jan 8 2017

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

Added Nov 6 2016

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

Added Nov 5 2016

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

Added Sep 11 2016

Electricia “The Girl Who Tames Electricity”

Added Jul 10 2016

Helter Skelter, Luna Park Company, Coney Island

Added Apr 18 2016

The Iron Clad, Luna Park Company, Coney Island

Added Apr 18 2016

Fire And Flames, Luna Park Company, Coney Island

Added Apr 18 2016

The Great Durbar At Delhi, Luna Park Company, Coney Island

Added Apr 18 2016

Chute The Chutes, Luna Park Company, Coney Island

Added Apr 18 2016

Great Durbar of India In The Streets of Delhi, Luna Park, Coney Island

Added Apr 18 2016

A Trip To The Moon, Luna Park Co. Postcard, Coney Island

Added Apr 18 2016

20,000 Leagues Under The Sea, Luna Park, Coney Island

Added Apr 18 2016

Two Chums At Luna Park, Coney Island, 1910

Added Mar 20 2016

Barnum Hippodrome Concert Tradecard

Added Mar 20 2016

Lawley’s Athletic Show Cast on The Bally Stage

Added Mar 19 2016

Lawley’s Athletic Show

Added Mar 19 2016

Zoma The Wonder Bannerline On Miller Brothers 101 Ranch Wild West

Added Mar 19 2016

J & G Hagenbeck’s Sword Swallowers & Jugglers

Added Jan 4 2016

English Baby Incubators Show “Child Life Section”

Added Jan 4 2016

Kickapoo Medicine Show Performer

Added Oct 17 2015

Kick-A-Poo Indian Medicine Show

Added Oct 17 2015

Crounse United Shows Bannerline

Added Sep 28 2015

Brighton Beach Hotel Tintype

Added Jul 19 2015

Annie Oakley

Added Jul 12 2015

Kelleher “The Drum Major Of Nowadays”

Added May 3 2015

Athletic Show “Jack Albright’s Wrestling Arena”

Added Apr 5 2015

Willie Bowlegs “Seminole Indian Sword-Swallower”

Added Apr 4 2015

Jack Earle at The Golden Gate International Exposition.

Added Feb 25 2015

Monsieur Gouffe “Celebrated Man-Monkey”

Added Jan 8 2015

Samuel Dixon Crossing Niagara

Added Dec 14 2014

Charles Blondin Cooks on the Wire

Added Oct 30 2014

Andrew Jenkins Crosses Niagara River

Added Oct 30 2014

Clifford Calverly crossing Niagara Whirlpool Rapids

Added Oct 30 2014

Truck-Mounted Torture Show

Added Oct 18 2014

Man’s Inhumanity To Man Sideshow at Coney Island

Added Oct 12 2014

Trip To Mars By Aeroplane

Added Sep 28 2014

Coasting Thro’ Switzerland at Coney Island

Added Sep 13 2014

Bunnell’s Dime Museum Illusion “Head on Sword”

Added Sep 12 2014

Rice & Dore Water Carnival After Tornado

Added Aug 27 2014

Longbeach Amusement Zone “The Pike”

Added Aug 24 2014

Le Capitaine Costentenus

Added Aug 13 2014

The Ferris Wheel, Columbian Expo

Added Aug 12 2014

Aerial View of 1932 Century of Progress

Added Aug 11 2014

Buffalo Bill by WENDT

Added Jul 26 2014

The New Iron Pier at West Brighton, Coney Island

Added Jul 13 2014

“La Rambla,” The Midway, Pan American Expo

Added Jul 13 2014

Ki Ki Blitz at The St. Louis Fair

Added Jul 13 2014

Ki Ki “The Man Monkey”

Added Jul 13 2014

Dreamland By Moonlight

Added Jul 13 2014

Luna Park By Moonlight

Added Jul 13 2014

Stauch’s Advertising Montage

Added Jul 13 2014

“Shoot-A-Photo” Coney Island

Added Jul 13 2014

Two Guys In The Zombie Cafe

Added Jul 13 2014

Father and Son at Coney Island

Added Jul 13 2014

Hot Frankfurters at Coney Island

Added Jul 13 2014

Elephant Fighting The Flames

Added Jul 13 2014

Ye Old Fashioned Clam Bake $1.00

Added Jul 13 2014

Mrs. General Tom Thumb, Midget City

Added Jul 13 2014

Bathing In Coney Island

Added Jul 13 2014

Bauer Sisters Candy Delicatessen, Coney Island

Added Jul 13 2014

Bauer Sisters Candy Delicatessen, San Francisco

Added Jul 13 2014

The Destruction of Messina

Added Jul 13 2014

The Galveston Flood Building

Added Jul 13 2014

Johnstown Flood Ticket

Added Jul 13 2014

Johnstown Flood

Added Jul 13 2014

Dreamland, Koehler Hold To Light

Added Jul 13 2014

The Galveston Flood, AFTER, Coney Island

Added Jul 13 2014

The Galveston Flood, BEFORE, Coney Island

Added Jul 13 2014

Surf Avenue, Koehler Hold To Light

Added Jul 13 2014

Bathing At Coney Island, Koehler Hold To Light

Added Jul 13 2014

Coney Island Park, Koehler Hold To Light

Added Jul 12 2014

Luna Park, Koehler Non-“Hold To Light” Version

Added Jul 12 2014

Luna Park, Koehler Hold To Light

Added Jul 12 2014

Dreamland “Shooting The Chutes,” Koehler Hold To Light

Added Jul 12 2014

Luna Park “The Slide,” Koehler Hold To Light

Added Jul 12 2014

Luna Park “The Electric Tower,” Koehler Non-“Hold To Light” Version

Added Jul 12 2014

Luna Park “Electric Tower,” Koehler Hold To Light

Added Jul 12 2014

Luna Park “Promenade,” Koehler Hold To Light

Added Jul 12 2014

Luna Park “The Circus,” Koehler Non-“Hold To Light” Version

Added Jul 12 2014

Luna Park “Riding The Elephant” Koehler Hold To Light

Added Jul 12 2014

Luna Park “The Circus,” Koehler Hold To Light

Added Jul 12 2014

Fighting The Flames, Koehler (Flat Version)

Added Jul 12 2014

Fighting The Flames, Koehler “Hold To Light”

Added Jul 12 2014

Midget City Fire & Police Departments

Added Jul 12 2014

Steeplechase Park $1.00 Badge

Added Jul 12 2014

Chas. Miller with Elephants at Bostock

Added Jul 12 2014

Post Office & Steeplechase Park

Added Jul 12 2014

Rough Riders Rollercoaster

Added Jul 12 2014

The Chutes

Added Jul 12 2014

Loop-The-Loop

Added Jul 12 2014

Loop-The-Loop Ride Ticket

Added Jul 12 2014

Rocky Road To Dublin Ride Ticket

Added Jul 12 2014

Manhattan Beach Hotel, Coney Island

Added Jul 12 2014

Brighton Beach Hotel, Coney Island

Added Jul 12 2014

Brighton Beach Hotel, Coney Island

Added Jul 12 2014

Whirl-Fly Rollercoaster

Added Jul 12 2014

Shooting The Chutes Boat Splashing

Added Jul 11 2014

Circus Ring & Shoot The Chutes

Added Jul 11 2014

Shooting The Chutes, Schenectady

Added Jul 11 2014

Subway and Elevated Stations at Coney Island

Added Jul 7 2014

The Great Swimming Pool at Steeplechase Park

Added Jul 7 2014

The Dragon’ Gorge

Added Jul 7 2014

Stauch’s “Go Where The Crowds Go” [v2]

Added Jul 7 2014

Stauch’s “Beauty And The Beasts”

Added Jul 7 2014

A Swell Affair At Stauch’s

Added Jul 7 2014

Stauch’s “You’ll Be Tickled To Death”

Added Jul 7 2014

Stauch’s “Go Where The Crowds Go” [v1]

Added Jul 7 2014

Greetings From Coney Island

Added Jul 7 2014

Wonder Wheel At Night

Added Jul 7 2014

Thompson Scenic Railroad Ticket

Added Jul 7 2014

Shooting The Rapids Ticket

Added Jul 7 2014

Nathan’s Famous

Added Jul 7 2014

Coney Island Sideshow

Added Jul 6 2014

Boardwalk and Shifrin’s Hebrew National

Added Jul 6 2014

Coney Island Boardwalk, 1960’s

Added Jul 6 2014

East Indian Natives, Luna Park

Added Jul 6 2014

Swimmers At Coney Island

Added Jul 6 2014

Embroidered Silk Center Court at Luna Park

Added Jul 6 2014

The L.A. Thompson Scenic Railway

Added Jul 6 2014

The L.A. Thompson Scenic Railway

Added Jul 6 2014

Bathing At Coney Island (Glitter Girls)

Added Jul 6 2014

Dreamland Photo Studio Postcard

Added Jul 6 2014

Atlantis, “The Sunken City” at Steeplechase Park

Added Jul 5 2014

Souvenir of Coney Island

Added Jul 5 2014

Ripley’s Show Front at the Pan-American Expo

Added Jun 26 2014

The Elephant Hotel

Added Jun 26 2014

The Colossal Elephant

Added Jun 26 2014

The Elephant Hotel in Coney Island

Added Jun 26 2014

Coney Island Lighthouse

Added Jun 26 2014