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These are some great publications that we
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Freaks
DVD Director: Tod Browning : Tod
Browning brought in some of the most famous sideshow
attractions of the era, include Siamese twins Daisy and
Violet Hilton and Johnny Eck the Legless Boy, as well as Schlitzie microcephalics. So disturbing that it was
banned for 30 years in Great Britain. |
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Sideshow - Alive on the Inside
DVD:
These real, amazing and very human stories reawakened
interest in the bizarre and eccentric world of the
circus and carnival sideshow, turning the spotlight on
the legendary headliners of yesteryear and their
modern-day counterparts who have chosen to be sideshow
performers and found real happiness in their strange
careers. |
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History's Mysteries - Circus Freaks And Sideshows
DVD (History Channel):
Join us for a trip through the bizarre world of midgets,
giants, tattooed ladies, and other human curiosities as
we trace the colorful history of a distinctly American
form of entertainment--the circus sideshow. From the
1840s when P.T. Barnum exhibited Tom Thumb to the last
remaining shows struggling to survive at New York's
Coney Island |
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Monsters: Human Freaks in America's Gilded Age: The Photographs of Chas Eisenmann
by Michael Mitchell :
Called "monsters" by the medical profession, the
subjects of this photographic collection made their
living appearing in circuses, side shows, and living
museums across America from the 1880s through the 1890s.
Photographer Charles Eisenmann captured the images of
these unusual people within his New York studio
apartment. Originally released in 1979, this new edition
includes the 80 original images and background
information |
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Freak Show
by Gideon Bosker, Carl Hammer:
Step right up! The show's about to begin with this
mesmerizing, full color collection of outrageous banners
from the heyday of traveling circus sideshows. See the
giant ?Alaskan king crab! Marvel at the Bearded Lady!
Look, if you dare, at the Dog-Faced Boy! Watch the Woman
Changing to Stone! Circus sideshows from the turn of the
century through the 1950s boasted unbelievable "freaks
of nature," incredible transformations, and death
defying acts |
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Freaks, Geeks, and Strange Girls by Randy Johnson, Jim Secreto, Teddy Varndell :
presents a colorful history of the carnival sideshow and
its distinctive banner art. With 100 color photographs,
the book lovingly surveys this now vanished icon of
early rural America, counter pointing classic freak show
art with contemporary interpretations. 50 archival
black-and-white photos of sideshows provide a historical
context for the banner illustrations. |
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The Last Sideshow
by Hanspeter Schneider :
is a wonderful chronicle of an American community of
traveling circus performers. As a contributor to Vogue ,
GQand Elle, Hanspeter Schneider's professional life has
focused on the artifice of beauty. In his new book he
challenges popular assumptions and captures beauty with
charm and understanding |
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Freaks: We Who Are Not As Others by Daniel P. Mannix :
Another long out of print classic book based on
Mannix's personal acquaintance with sideshow stars such
as the Alligator Man and the Monkey Woman, etc. Read all
about the notorious love affairs of midgets; the amazing
story of the elephant boy; the unusual amours of Jolly
Daisy; the fat woman; the famous pinhead who inspired
Verdi's "Rigoletto"; the tragedy of Betty Lou Williams
and her parasitic twin; the black midget, only 34 inches
tall, who was happily married to a 264-pound wife; the
human torso who could sew, crochet and type; and bizarre
accounts of normal humans turned into freaks |
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Max Rusid's Photo Album
of Human Oddities - Sideshow : Black and white reproductions of vintage photographs
of very special people, including stars of the side
show: Pop-eyed Perry, Jo-Jo the Dog-Faced Boy, Annie
Jones, Jack Earl, Fat men, bearded ladies, midgets,
giants, siamese twins, human oddities, albinos, etc.
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Human Oddities: A Book
of Nature's Anomalies by Martin Monestier |
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The History of the
American Sideshow by Marc Hartzman :
You've probably heard of Tom Thumb. The Elephant Man.
Perhaps even Chang and Eng, the original Siamese twins.
But what about Eli Bowen, the legless acrobat? Or Prince
Randian, the human torso? These were just a few of the
many stars that shone during the heyday of the American
sideshow, from 1840 to 1950. History is filled with
numerous examples of strange people having displayed
strange abilities, exotic animals from far-away
countries have always fascinated the audience, and the
grotesque, different, and sometimes flat out revolting
have always been sure to make people curious. During the
latter half of the 19th century traveling sideshows and
carnivals started gaining more and more popularity, and
the circuses of today can be considered to be the
descendants of these productions. |
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Secrets of the Sideshows
by Joe Nickell |
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The Two-Headed Boy and
Other Medical Marvels by Jan Bondeson :
aims to humanize his
subjects and move beyond the standard exploitation of
people with extremely visible medical anomalies such as
the egg-laying Scotsman or the Irish gentle lady who was
said to have given birth to 365 babies at once. Fans of
good, old-fashioned freak shows will enjoy the profuse
illustrations |
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Mutter Museum Historic
Medical Photographs by College of Physicians of Philadelphia :
Mütter Museum contain artful images of the museum's
fascinating exhibits shot by contemporary fine art
photographers. Rare historic photographs, most of which
have never been seen by the public. Featured are
poignant, aesthetically accomplished works ranging from
Civil War photographs showing injury and recovery, to
the ravages of diseases not yet conquered in the 19th
century, to pathological anomalies, to psychological
disorders. Many were taken by talented photographers
between the 1860s and the 1940s as records for
physicians to share among colleagues and to track
patients’ conditions, and demonstrate various techniques
used in medical photography including the daguerreotype,
micrography, X ray, and traditional portrait-style
photography. As visual documents of what humans endured
in the face of limited medical knowledge, these
extraordinary and haunting photographs demonstrate how
far medicine has advanced. |
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The Mutter Museum: Of
the College of Physicians of Philadelphia by Gretchen Worden : Home to over 20,000 mind-boggling anatomic
specimens, plaster casts, wax models, and paintings, the
Mutter Museum, founded in 1858, is part of the College
of Physicians of Philadelphia. This book features over
100 photographs by a select group of renowned
photographers whose work appears in the award-winning
Mutter Museum calendars. Highlights include a bust of an
early-19th-century Parisian widow with a six-inch horn
protruding from the forehead; the connected livers of
Chang and Eng, the world-famous Siamese twins; the
skeleton of a 7’6” giant from Kentucky; and a collection
of 139 skulls showing anatomic variation among ethnic
groups in central and eastern Europe. Historical
photographs from the museum’s archives, brief background
texts about the collection, stunning photographs by
acclaimed photographers including William Wegman and
Joel-Peter Witkinand, and an introductory essay on the
museum are also included. |
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Freak Show
by Robert Bogdan : From 1840 until 1940, freak shows by the hundreds
crisscrossed the United States, from the smallest towns
to the largest cities, exhibiting their casts of dwarfs,
giants, Siamese twins, bearded ladies, savages, snake
charmers, fire eaters, and other oddities. By today's
standards such displays would be considered cruel and
exploitative—the pornography of disability. Yet for one
hundred years the freak show was widely accepted as one
of America's most popular forms of entertainment. |
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Carny Folk
by Francine Homberger: A fascinating review of side show freaks and the
more human side of their story |
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Being Different DVD /
VHS Director: Harry Rasky :
This is a MUST SEE!!! AWESOME |
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