This lot is closed for bidding. Bidding ended on 2/25/2023
[SIDESHOW] Collection of Real Photo Postcards of Sideshow Performers. American, 1910s – 40s. Thirty-two images, most full-length, picturing the performers featured in many of America’s best-traveled sideshows and circuses before 1950. Among the personalities are Betty Broadbent the tattooed woman, Mary & Margaret Gibb the Siamese Twins, Sword Swallower Alex Linton, Violetta “the only half-woman on earth,” “Freddie the Armless Wonder,” Sadie Anderson the leopard skin girl (INSCRIBED AND SIGNED by Anderson on the verso), Pop-Eye (Bob Wallace, aka “funny face,” with the Al G. Barnes sideshow), Carrie Holt, Tom Ton the “world’s heaviest man,” The Lobster Boy, Lady Little, Frances O’Connor the armless lady, John Creech or “Jim Crow” the ossified man, Elizabeth the Living Doll, Brother Iaiah the Miracle Man, albino twins, Kiko and Sulu the Pinheads “from Zanzibar,” a giant boa constrictor, and many more. Scrapbook remnants to versos of most cards, else very good or better. Together, 32 items. An impressive collection.