This lot is closed for bidding. Bidding ended on 4/30/2022
[SIDESHOW & ODDITIES]. Archive of Bernard Kobel sideshow, tattooed people, and human oddity photographs, with related ephemera. Approximately 180 pieces total, the majority vintage Kobel mail-order photos (generally 4 ½ x 6 3/8”) including tattooed people, Siamese twins, people with piebald skin, Lionel the Lion-Faced Man, women with supposed “third breasts” or very large breasts, diving horses, armless and legless people, giants, long-haired women, fat people, dwarfs, “pinheads,” “living skeletons,” sideshow banners, Circassian beauties, “hermaphrodites,” and others. Tattoo photos include: T797, T1364, T69, T104, T1059, T1262, T4000, and T399. In addition, archive includes a SIGNED Frieda Pushnik “armless wonder” Kobel photo; sideshow manager Clyde Ingalls SIGNED typed letter on R.B.B.B. letterhead (1940) to Mr. and Mrs. John Dunning; and several carnival and sideshow postcards, photographs, and snapshots. Neatly laid in a three-ring binder with clear plastic protective overlay; condition generally very good.