Sideshow Sculptures
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Also known as Francesco Lentini, The Man with 3 Legs also had four feet and two penises. Lentini was not the least bit phased by his freakish characteristics, but instead embraced the pleasures that sideshow life gave him. View photo »
Born with Seckel's Syndrome, which is also called bird-headed dwarfism, Woolsey would dress up in a feather costume at sideshows to accentuate her already bird-like features and complete her transformation. View photo »
Straight, black hair covered the bearded lady's entire face and body and her own son, who died three days after being born, was covered in the same hair as well. The dress featured on the sculpture is made from material that the real bearded lady actually wore at one time. View photo »
Not really a baby at all, but a morbidly obese woman, people like Thelma were attractions at every sideshow during the height of its popularity. View photo »
Featured together at sideshows, Prince Randian, in the absence of any limbs, was able to roll and light cigarettes using only his mouth while his partner, Johnny Eck, had to use his hands to walk because he was born "snapped off at the waist." View photo »
Mon, May 5, 2008 (6:06 p.m.)
Holley Bakich's sculptures of the real life people that appeared at sideshows as freaks of nature and are on display with the "Amusement Park Science" exhibit at the Harry Reid Hall of the Atomic Testing Museum.
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