30126.
Tom Thumb and wife, Commodore Nutt and wife. Small stereoview measures 2.5″ x 5.125.”
Anonymous-Oddities etc category
30140.
Henry Baker, 22 years old, 3 feet, 4 in. high. George Henderson, 6 feet, 4 in. Phoenix, N.Y.
30143.
Hairy Girl of Mandalay.
30144.
Hairy Boy of Mandalay.
30158.
Isaac Sprague, Living Skeleton.
30164.
The Living Skeleton George Prise.
30171.
Wonderful Spotted Boy, and his Companion (or huge Boa Constrictor.)
30186.
Unidentified Snake Lady.
30193.
Wild Men of Borneo. Hiram and Barney Davis, along with their manager, Hanford Lyman.
30195.
Wild Men of Borneo. Waino & Plutano. Weight 45 pounds. Age 50 to 60. Hiram and Barney Davis, along with their manager, Hanford Lyman.
30199.
Wild Men of Borneo. Waino & Plutano. Weight 45 pounds. Age, about 50. Hiram and Barney Davis.
30200.
Wild Men of Borneo. Waino & Plutano. Weight 45 pounds. Age, about 50. Hiram and Barney Davis.
30205.
John Babtista dos Santos of Faro, Portugal. His condition is described as Ischiopagus dipygus. See NYS Journal of Medicine, Nov. 1979, p. 1933 in Early Medical Photography in America by Stanley Burns.
30206.
Mlle. Zana, the only Bearded Russian Lady, 19 Years of Age.
30209.
Madam Squires of Massachusetts. (D)
30210.
Madam Squires of Massachusetts. 40 Years of Age. (D)
30211.
Madam Squires of Massachusetts. 30 Years of Age. (D)
30227.
Madame DeVere & husband, Brookville, Ky.
30255.
Chang and Eng.
30259.
Chang and Eng and two of their children.
30260.
Chang and Eng, their wives, and two children.
30280.
Unidentified Fat Lady.
30281.
Amelia Hill, Fat Girl.
30288.
Unidentified Fat Lady.
30292.
Alice Cherry, World’s Fattest Girl, Age 24 Years.
30296.
Jno. N. Craig. I.O.O.F. K. of P. and I.O.R.M. John Hanson Craig, Kentucky.
30298.
Jno. N. Craig. I.O.O.F. K. of P. and I.O.R.M. John Hanson Craig, Kentucky.
30313.
Anna Swan and Martin Van Buren Bates, husband and wife. The man on the right is Charles Eisenmann, the photographer.
30315.
Col. Cooper, the English Giant.
30321.
Robinson Bros. Iowa Giants, Height 7 ft, 11 in.
30330.
Written on verso “G.F. Spence Elizabethtown Ky. Chas. B. Tripp, Born in Woodstock, Ontario. Age 25 yrs.” This is written by Tripp with his feet.
30331.
Written on verso “Lydia Thomas, Lamartine, Wis. Chas. B. Tripp, Woodstock, Ontario. Age 28 yrs.” Written by Tripp with his feet.
30334.
George Williams, “Turtle Boy,” born in Hot Springs, Arkansas, 1859. He’s actually 21 years old in the photo. George was an accomplished player of the harmonica, drums, flute and panpipes. In 1889, at Worth’s Palace Museum, he was presented with a silver-mounted banjo by his fellow performers. Towards the turn of the century, George owned a 160-acre farm near Wheaton, Illinois. He made his living traveling from small town to small town with his manager, Willis Clark, exhibiting himself in vacant buildings. He spent his later years on the freak show circuit as “King Dodo” from the Fiji Islands.
30340.
Fred Wilson, Lobster Boy. From Somerville, Massachusetts.
30341.
Mme. Babault, the Lobster-Clawed Lady.
30342.
Unidentified.
30343.
Walter H. Stuart, Boston, Mass.
30344.
Ann E. Leak was born in Georgia on December 23, 1839. In spite of a prediction by her mother’s physician that she would die within a few days, she survived. While behind other’s her age in learning to walk she eventually learned to use her feet as most use their hands. She became so adept at using her feet she could skillfully sew and braid hair. Like many, her family lost their money and livelihood during the Civil War, so Miss Leak provided financially for both herself and them. For a while she gave classes in braiding, but the money wasn’t enough to support both her and her parents, so she, reluctantly at first, chose to exhibit her skills. Her first gig was at Barnum’s American Museum, something that she found difficult. But she accepted this way of life and, as she says in her autobiography, “Only the conviction that it seemed best reconciled me to it. My lot was not one of my own choosing, but such as Providence had assigned me, and my feet seemed to be directed in the path that I was about to tread. It is the doom of man that his sky should never be altogether without clouds.” She traveled around the East under the name Ann E. Leak Born Without Arms and while being taken advantage of a few times, for the most part, those she met in her travels treated her very well. She eventually married and traveled under the name Ann Leak Thompson.
30355.
Miss Mary Sutherland.
30356.
Unidentified.
30357.
Miss Isabella Sutherland.
30358.
Miss Isabella Sutherland.
30362.
Unidentified.
30365.
Ashbury Benjamin, the Leopard Boy. Born in Cape Town, South Africa.
30395.
I think this is a young Eugene Berry.
30422.
The Solid Muldoon–The Missing Link, 1877. George Hill, perpetrator of the Cardiff Giant, created a new giant measuring 7 feet, 5 inches, weighing 600 lbs., and possessing a four inch tail. This was done with the assistance of a Mr. Fitch, who had patented “Portland Cement.” To fool scientists, they embedded bones from a human skeleton in the concrete, then added a cow’s shinbone to the neck for reinforcement. Hull approached Barnum and the Solid Muldoon was shipped to Barnum’s New York Museum of Anatomy. Fitch confessed the hoax just as “scientists” were ready to cross-section the stomach. At a previous interview before the hoax was discovered, Barnum commented: “It is my candid opinion that in this discovery we have found the missing link which Darwin claims connects mankind with beast creation.” This reference is from Hoaxes, Humbugs, and Spectacles by Mark Sloan, 1990, page 8.
30427.
Circus, Webster, MA Main Street.
30429.
Unidentified Fair. Banners for Side Show Freaks.
30432.
French Carousel.
30433.
Primitive Ferris Wheel. Sign says “5 Cents a Ride Children Under 6 ?? 5.”