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"Souvenir du Royaume de Liliput - Paris"
[the Kingdom of Liliput was a circus troupe of people of diminutive stature]
Chaefer’s Marchenstadt Lilliput
[presumably a circus similar to the one in Paris?]
"To the memory of the Kolossal brothers and sisters"
[sideshow performers?]
"Box Made of the Human Skin of a Chinese Murderer"
Ripley Odditorium exhibit, postcard dated 1939
"Shrunken Human Heads"
from the Field Museum of Natural History, Chicago
"Gruss Aus with Merry Go Round and Side Show incl. Woman without Legs"
Germany, 1904
"Men Fighting Skeleton"
“Cane used by Club Foot, George Lane when Hanged by the Vigilantes in 1864”
from the Virginia City Museum
“Remarkable Discovery in Cheddar Caves” [skeleton found in 1903 now an exhibit at the Cheddar Caves Museum, Somerset, England]
“Javaro Shrunken Heads”
from the American Museum of Natural History
“Long Tail Rooster”
Ripley Odditorium exhibit, postcard dated 1939
Munchen, Bayrische Gewerbeschau, “Marionetten - Theater”
1903
“Elisabeth Siegeretty”
printed 1906
[sideshow performer?]
“Dickson’s Mound’s State Park, Ill.”
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