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Top 100

Of the many items and images in the collection, there are certain that seem to transcend their time and space. Though they are necessarily, and by definition, part of the past, these images have the ability to speak to a world outside of history.

Whether through rarity, beauty, or a quality that describes something at the edge of the imagination, the images chosen to reside in this “Top 100” section have the power to elicit an electrical charge in the brain again and again, even many years after first viewing.

— D.B. Doghouse

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Farini’s Krao

October 12, 2025

Percilla With Her Mother

September 13, 2025

Double-Cased Sword-Swallower Tintypes

July 13, 2025

Sword-Swallower Ambrotype

July 12, 2025

Kohl & Middleton’s Dime Museum

January 5, 2025

Delno Fritz Postcard

December 29, 2024

Circassian Woman Covering Her Face With A Fan

November 2, 2024

Schlitzie, Koo Koo, and Zip at Kodet’s Harlem Museum

October 27, 2024

Charlie Lucas at Hubert’s Museum

October 20, 2024

James Morris “Maurice”, Rubber Skinned

October 12, 2024

Kee-Bo “The Fire Child”

June 16, 2024

Jo-Jo “The Greatest Wonder on Earth” (18 Pages)

June 2, 2024

The Human Lizard Pitshow

February 25, 2024

Wild Woman “Florida Demon” Handbill

January 7, 2024

Young Alice Bounds “She-Bear”

September 23, 2023

W.T. Sapp on His Cart

September 17, 2023

W.T. Sapp with Manager

September 17, 2023

Edwin “The Ossified Boy” Single-O

September 17, 2023

Eli Bowen Broadside, As The Wild Man

September 4, 2023

Lionel “Half Man Half Lion” Bannerline at Dreamland Circus Sideshow

September 3, 2023

The Blazek Sisters “Pygopagi Twins”

August 21, 2023

Letty Orliana “Circassian Beauty”

August 21, 2023

Electricia “The Girl Who Tames Electricity”

July 21, 2023

Front View, Unidentified Human Pincushion from Chicago

June 25, 2023

Back View, Unidentified Human Pincushion from Chicago

June 25, 2023

Capt. Ringman Mach “American Athlete”

June 25, 2023

Jolly Trixie On A Diamond-Shaped Trade Card

May 27, 2023

Carrie Akers & Manager (?)

May 14, 2023

Carrie Akers by EISENMANN

May 14, 2023

Percilla Bejano Pinback Button

May 7, 2023

Mamie “Fattest Girl on Earth” Bannerline

March 19, 2023

The Original Lonesome Jack, Tattooist & “Reptile Curator”

January 15, 2023

Osca “The Snake Fiend”

January 15, 2023

Lewando Baldwin & Wife

September 26, 2022

European Circus Sideshow with Anna-John Budd, Randion, Schlitzie, etc.

October 24, 2021

Eko & Iko, and Clicko at Kodet’s Harlem Museum by Edward Kelty

June 5, 2021

Harry “The Shadow,” Major Mite, Jim Tarver, Alice From Dallas by Edward Kelty

June 2, 2021

Lewis Love “Crawfish or Turtle-Boy”

September 26, 2020

Louis Love Single-O Showfront With Banner & Ticket-Taker

September 20, 2020

Seven Sutherland Sisters Advertising Poster

May 24, 2020

Chatham Square Museum Facade, ca. 1888

March 15, 2020

Barnello “Human Volcano”

May 19, 2019

Paul Desmuke Single-O Tent Show

March 31, 2019

Ringling Brothers Barnum Bailey 1950 Sideshow Cast At Madison Square Garden

March 9, 2019

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

March 3, 2019

An Incredible Nelson Supply Company Giant Mummy in Nebraska

July 22, 2018

Schlitzie & Anna John Budd In Large Sideshow Group

January 8, 2017

Beautiful 1920s Funhouse Mirror Image Of Two Women and A Man

December 25, 2016

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

November 6, 2016

Facade of The Coney Island Dreamland Circus Sideshow in 1921

November 6, 2016

Lucy Jones “Camel Girl”

September 25, 2016

Alice Elizabeth Doherty with her Family “Minnesota Wooly Girl”

July 10, 2016

Tomaso “Human Pincushion”

July 10, 2016

Prohibition Turns Saloon “Globe Cafe” Into A Dime Museum

July 10, 2016

Major Gantz and His Enormous Watermelon, Age 34

July 9, 2016

Zip & Ashbury Benjamin

July 9, 2016

Zip & Ashbury Benjamin

July 8, 2016

The Great Omi and Prof. George Burchett

July 4, 2016

Leonard Trask “The Wonderful Invalid”

May 29, 2016

Ernest Faulconer & Son Jonathan “6-Fingers, 7-Toes”

April 18, 2016

Joe Thibault “The Big-Fingered Boy”

April 17, 2016

Clyde, “Boy With 24 Fingers & Toes”

April 16, 2016

Charlie Wagner Tattooing A Professional Tattooed Lady

April 12, 2016

Jack Dracula “The World’s Greatest Tattooed Man”

April 11, 2016

Lewando Baldwin by Charles Eisenmann

March 19, 2016

Very Very Small Midget Woman Showfront

March 19, 2016

Teddy Reed’s Variety and Minstrel Show Bally Platform

January 4, 2016

Radica and Doodica “The Orissa Twins” & Prince Colibri

December 13, 2015

Korean Twins, Liu Soon and Liu Tang San

November 1, 2015

The Hilton Sisters’ Single-O Show, New Zealand

October 24, 2015

Sells-Floto Buffalo Bill Circus Bannerline & Ticketbox with Bayrooty Troupe

October 23, 2015

A.D. Willis Fine Art & Spiritualist‘s Gallery on a Tintype

October 17, 2015

Chatham Museum Handbill

October 17, 2015

Dime Museum Tradecard

September 7, 2015

Siah Khan

August 23, 2015

New York Museum of Anatomy Exterior Stereoview

May 4, 2015

Myrtle Corbin and Family

April 19, 2015

Ella Harper “Camel Girl”

April 4, 2015

Robert Huddleston “Pony Boy”

March 28, 2015

Clarence Dale “The Big Head Boy”

January 20, 2015

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

January 9, 2015

Johnny Eck & Robert Eck On a Ship

October 26, 2014

William Durks, Behind The scenes

October 18, 2014

Jeremiah Diale “The Horned Man”

October 2, 2014

D.E. Warford, Tattooed Americana

September 27, 2014

Artoria Tattoed by C.W. Gibbons

August 31, 2014

Marguerette Clarke “Parasitic Siamese Twin”

August 23, 2014

Ad for Charles Wagner’s Work On Karsey

August 13, 2014

Johanna & Ursa “Bear Girls”

August 13, 2014

Miss Uno with Iguanas

August 12, 2014

Miss Uno with Snakes!

August 11, 2014

Unzie “The Australian Aborigine”

August 11, 2014

Blind Tom

July 26, 2014

Maximo & Bartola With Woman Manager

July 17, 2014

Ki Ki Blitz and Mean Talker

July 13, 2014

Alice A. Doherty

July 6, 2014

Fedor & Andrian “L’Homme-Chein”

June 29, 2014

Jo Jo “The Dog-Faced Man” (18 Pages)

June 29, 2014

Freddie Esele Tintype, with Group of Fellow Performers

June 28, 2014

WARRIMEH Weninch Boseth “The Hand-Footed Hunter”

June 26, 2014

The Sacred Hairy Family of Burmah by EISENMANN

June 24, 2014

Wolfboy and Wildman (Armond Carloman “The Piebald Youth” and Fortune Clofulla “The Gorilla Boy”)

June 24, 2014

Capture of Bosco Geek Show

April 13, 2014

Johnny Jones World of Living Wonders With Caucasian Prince Randion

April 13, 2014

Yankee Robinson Circus Posters

April 13, 2014

Baby Mildred “The Smallest and Youngest Snake Charmer In The World”

April 7, 2014

Dodson’s Side Show, 1928

April 6, 2014

Ferocious Devil Fish Attraction

April 6, 2014

Interior of Barnum’s Sideshow Tent

April 6, 2014

Annie Jones with her mother

March 24, 2014

“Limit” the 8-Legged Educated Horse

March 17, 2014

8-Legged Educated Horse

March 17, 2014

Tintype of Long-Maned Giant Horse Banner & Tent

March 17, 2014

Edwards ANIMAL SHOW & MUSEUM

March 15, 2014

Tocci Brothers, Nude

March 9, 2014