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Index
Cover Page
Title Page
Copyright Page
Dedication Page
Contents
List of Illustrations
Acknowledgments
Preface
1 - Origins of The Sideshow
Early Roots
The Fairs and Beyond
Beginnings of the Modern Circus
Barnum the Showman
The Greatest Show
Carnivals and More
2 - On The Midway
Creating the Midway
Concessions
Games
Rides and Amusements
Sideshows
3 - The Ten-In-One
The Banner Line
The Bally Platform
On the Inside
The Blowoff
4 - Human Oddities: Large and Small
Giants
Fat People
Living Skeletons
Dwarfs
Midgets
5 - Human Oddities: Between a Half and Two
Siamese Twins
One-and-a-Halfs
Armless and Legless Wonders
6 - Other Human Oddities
“Animal” People
Hirsute Women—and Men
And More
7 - Anatomical Wonders
Contortionists
India-Rubber People
Special-Effects Performers
Mr. Anatomical Wonder
8 - Created Oddities
Tattooed People
Pierced Ones
Other “Made” Oddities
Gaffed Oddities
Gaffed Acts
9 - Working Acts
Fire-eaters
Sword Swallowers
Phenomenal Ingesters
Human Pincushions
Blockheads
Other Torture Acts
Electric Marvels
Snake Charmers
Knife Throwers
10 - Illusions
Magicians
Psychic Marvels
Torture Box Illusions
Living Heads
Headless People
Floating Lady
Gorilla Girl
Girl in the Goldfish Bowl
Other Illusions
11 - Animal Shows
Menageries
Single-Animal Acts and Exotics
Freak Animal Exhibits
Flea Circuses
12 - Curios
Pickled Exhibits
Other Preserved Exhibits
Bogus Creatures
Other Curios
13 - The Egress
References
Index
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