Secrets of the sideshows /
On small-town ballfields and county fairgrounds, the sideshow performers set up their tents and trailers in the shadow of the Ferris wheel. There they amazed us with daring feats such as fire eating and sword swallowing, intrigued us with exhibitions of human oddities and various "anatomical wo...
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Lexington, Ky. :
University Press of Kentucky
©2005.
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| Sraith: | Book collections on Project MUSE.
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| Rochtain ar líne: | https://www.jstor.org/stable/10.2307/j.ctt2jcf40 |
Clár na nÁbhar:
- Origins of the sideshow
- On the midway
- The ten-in-one
- Human oddities : large and small
- Human oddities : between a half and two
- Other human oddities
- Anatomical wonders
- Created oddities
- Working acts
- Illusions
- Animal shows
- Curios
- The egress.