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Acuff, Roy
Adams, Samuel Hopkins
Aiken, George
Albee, E.F.
alcohol
The Alhambra
Allen, Gracie
American Medical Association
American Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals
Arizona Bill
Astley, Philip
Astor Place Riot
Ayer, James
Bailey, Hachaliah
Bailey, James
ballyhoo
Banjo Gay
Banyan
Barnum, Phineas Taylor
Bartok, Milton
Beck, Martin
Bergh, Henry
Berry, J.L.
Big Free Fun Show
The Big Sensation Medicine Show
Bigelow, Charles
Billboard
Black, Ray
blood testers
blow-off
Bogardus, Captain Adam H.
the boozer
Boschee’s Syrup
Bowman, Earl
The British Blondes
Brother John
Brother Jonathan
Brower, Frank
Bump, Lavinia
Burdock Blood Bitters
Burt, William
Burt, William P.
buskers
Cajun
callithumpians
calomel
Calvinists
carnival
carnival workers (carnies)
Case, John
case taker, case taking room
Castello, Dan
catarrh
charlatan
Cherry Pectoral
Christian church
Christy, Edwin P.
circus
Civil War
Clarke, C.W.
clem
Clough, Jack
Cody, William F. “Buffalo Bill”
colonies, American
commedia dell’arte
confidence games
consultation room
contests
Cooper, Will
corn slum
Coryat, Thomas
Coup, William Cameron
cowboys
Crockett, Davy
deafness, cure for
dentistry
Diamond King
Diamond Kit
diamonds
disease
doctors
Dog-Face Boy
drugs
The Drunkard
duPre, Dr. Andrew
Edwards, Colonel T.A.
electric belts
Emmett, Dan
Enlightenment
epidemics
Federal Trade Commission yellow fever
Ferdon, Jim
Ferrell, Jim
Fink, Mike
fixing
Fletcher, Charles
Food and Drug Administration
Franklin, Benjamin
Gale, Henry
General Tom Thumb
Godfrey’s Cordials
Great Depression
gold
Hadacol
Hal the Healer
Hamlin, John
Hamlin’s Wizard Oil
Hammer, Arthur
Hanna, Mark
Healy, John
Hembold, Henry
Hickok, Wild Bill
High John the Conqueror
high pitch
hoodoo
Hostetter’s Bitters
Houdini, Harry
house cars
humbug
Italy
jam auctions
Jim Crow
Jolson, Al
Jonson, Ben
Julian, J.C.
Jumbo
Ka-Ton-Ka
Keith, B.F.
Kelley, Thomas P.
Kickapoo shows and remedies
King George III
King James I
Kinsman, F.G.
Lang, Jonnie
LeBlanc, Dudley J.
Leclair, Lefty
legislation
Lexington, Frank
Lighthall, J.I.
Lillie, Gordon
Little Bright Eyes
liver pads
Lord of Misrule
low pitch
McCulla, Jock
McDonald, Doc
McKay, Donald
McNeal, Violet
McNutt, George Washington Morrison
Madame duBois
Maloney, Jonathan
Mann, Cliff
Mardi Gras
Martin, Al
Marx, Groucho
Marx, Harpo
medicine, colonial
The Melodeon
melodrama
Merchant’s Gargling Oil
Middle Ages
Miller, Art (Doc)
mind-reading
mineral salts
minstrels
mojo
moral lectures
Mose the B’howery Boy
mountebank
movies
Mrs. Winslow’s Soothing Syrup
muscle reading
museums
narcotics
The Nation
Native Americans
Naylor, William D.
Noell, Anna Mae
Noell, Bobby
nostrum, defined
Oakley, Annie
Old Bet
Oliver, Nevada Ned
opium
The Oregon Medicine Company
The Palace
Pantages, Alexander
Parker, Painless
Pasteur, Madame V.
Pastor, Tony
Peale, Charles Wilson
Pechy, John
Pete in the Well
Pelham, Dick
Peruna
Phenomenal Kraus
pie-in-the-face
Pinkham, Lydia
Pitchmen
Porter, Doc
Pratt, William W.
Prince Nanzetta
Proctor, F.F.
Proprietary Association
quackbills
quacks, English
The Quaker Medicine Company
religion
Renaissance
Rexall’s Americanitis Elixir
Rice, Thomas “Daddy”
Ricketts, John Bill
Riley, James Whitcomb
Robinson, John
Roe, Michael
Roman Empire
Royal Players
Ruckner, Doc
Rush, Benjamin
Sagwa
Scott, “Doc” Tommy
Shakers
The Shamrock Concert Company
shills
Silk Hat Harry
single pitch rule
Sitting Bull
skid row
Smith, Bessie
Smith, William
soap
Soule, Asa T.
Stowe, Harriet Beecher
Stratton, Charles
Stratton, Owen Tully
street workers
Swor, Bert
tall tales
tapeworm cures
teeth
Temperance movement
Ten Nights in a Barroom
tents, use of
Texas Charlie
theater riots
Thompson, Lydia
Thomson, Samuel
Thomsonians
The Three O’Clock Train
Tiger Fat
tobies
Tom show
Ton-Ko-Ko
Townsend, Doc C.M.
trade cards
trailers
tripes and keister
Turner, Lou
Uncle Tom’s Cabin
variety
vaudeville
Vauxhall Garden
Venice
Vital Sparks
Wallace, Bigfoot
Webber, Malcolm
Wellington, Doc
White, Charlie
Whitlock, Billy
Wild West show
Williams, Hank
Yankee peddler