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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Автор: Nickell, Joe
Формат: Licensed eBooks
Мова:Англійська
Опубліковано: Lexington, Ky. : University Press of Kentucky ©2005.
Серія:Book collections on Project MUSE.
Онлайн доступ:https://www.jstor.org/stable/10.2307/j.ctt2jcf40
Зміст:
  • 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.