No matter how many books you read, documentaries you watch, people you know and podcasts you listen to, there will always be more information to learn about our world. And as it turns out, plenty of that info is actually incredibly interesting!
Kermit the Frog sang that “It ain’t easy being green.” How about, “It ain’t easy being a conjoined-twin forced into a humiliating form of circus-slavery,” or “It ain’t easy having no limbs.” Being green is the least of these people’s worries. (In fact it might be nice to be culturally-beloved for a change.) At the turn of the last century, entertainment was a different species than it is today, having not T.V. or radio or action movies; you had to witness a living miracle in order to be fully entertained, and circuses provided that very thing.
Just a few of natures oddities...
The freak show has a long and bizarre history. Here are some of the most famous circus freaks ever mesmerize audiences inside the sideshow tent.
Although the sideshow has mostly disappeared from the American landscape today, we can still look back on the performers of yesteryear and see how they became the icons of the American circus culture. But the stories of the real-life people behind the leg
Ida, Iva, and Eva Hanna Charles and Harriet “Hattie” Hanna married in the late 1800s and went on to have at least six children — including a set of identical triplets. The three b…
It's dark history cannot be erased.
Gesprengte Ketten: Max Siegfried konnte sich offenbar auch aus völlig auswegslosen Lagen befreien und warb damit, der "beste Entfesslungskünstler der Gegenwart" zu sein. Frei kommen musste er auch - denn wie hätte er sonst die Postkarten verkaufen können, die ihm den Lebensunterhalt sichern sollten?
It's dark history cannot be erased.
Welcome! Welcome! Step right up Ladies and Gentlemen, to the largest and grandest show on earth! Under a Paper Moon and a glittered co...
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Photographer Charles Eisenmann followed sideshow performers in the mid-1800s in New York including Jo-Jo, the dog-faced boy (pictured). The freak show was popular with lower classes, causing 'dime museums' to spring up in impoverished neighborhoods.
Pasqual Pinon, was known as The Two-Headed Mexican and he was a featured attraction with the Sells-Floto Circus in the early 1900s. The story went that
Between 1870 and 1890, bearded girls, dog-faced boys, giants, midgets, fat ladies, lobster-clawed men, and other human oddities sat for photographer Charles Eisenmann. A German immigrant who opened…
Charles Tripp was not only the most well known armless wonders in the freak show, he was also one of the most famous Canadian entertainers of his era.
Here are some interesting photos I found!
Elvira and Jenny Lee Snow.
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