All Coulrophobia -Circus Memorabilia & Side Show Freaks

Circus Side Show Snake Woman Emma Pearley Victorian circus freak side show Snake Lady Emma Pearley with Giant Python, J.J. Ginther Buffalo photographer.
Circa: 1885 c
Size: Cabinet Card
Manufacturer: J.J. Ginther 333 Mains St. Buffalo NY  

General Tom Thumb Wife & Baby Circus P.T. Barnum circus side show midget cdv photo Charles Sherwood Stratton aka General Tom Thumb wife Lavinia Warren and baby.
The Strattons relied on orphanages for replacement foundlings due to infertility issues.
Circa: 1865 c
Size: CDV
 

Siamese Twins Chang Eng Circus Freaks Rare carte di visite Civil War era photo of Siamese Twins Chang and Eng with 2 of their 11 children.
Circa: 1863 c
Size: CDV
 

Zula Zelick Circassian Queen Circus Circus freak Zula Zelick carte de visite antique circus side show photograph circa 1880.
Circa: 1880 c
Size: Carte de Visite
Manufacturer: Unknown  

Arcade Scale Fortune Telling Weight Antique American Scale Mfg of Wash. DC
Note spelling, Wate and Fate heavy fortune teller character carnival reading with lucky penny return.
It still works pretty well.
I have to admit it's a pretty accurate device; see picture of MY fortune! Brass base plate with chop marks and original paper maintainence service card circa 1930.
Great coin-op operated antique boardwalk, midway circus fortune telling weight scale. FOB. Pa. Zip 18938

Circa: 1930
Manufacturer: American Scale Manufacturing Company Washington D.C.  

Halloween Noise Maker Toy Clowns Vintage tin noisemaker Halloween treat in great condition. Three and three quarters wide by three inches tall to top of wooden handle. Still works, great Holiday toy.

Tear Drop Memories offers fine Postmortem photography, rare funeral collectibles and interesting cemetery art and death related books. Please visit our other two Tias web shops ; North Fork Pets And Antiques, a great shop for antique Victorian bird cages and vintage animal collectibles and Maidens Memoirs, the place for old Love letters, Victorian scrap books, circus freak photos and vintage diaries. Email us for our phone number we are dying to hear from you!

 

Circus Freak Fat Lady Antique Cabinet Photograph Victorian 19th century Circus performer fat lady photo. Un named and ample she hold a rolled newspaper in hand and poses confidently.
 

More To Love !!! Circus Fat Lady Antique Victorian Eisenmann Circus fat lady antique Victorian cabinet card photograph circa 1880. Dainty sweet smile this big girl is hard at work at the vanity.
 

Circus Freak Fat Lady Madam Carver Antique CDV Photo Victorian circus fat lady, Madam Carver photo. A fine freak show image from the late 19th century. Photographer Charles Eisenmann
 

Circus Snake Woman Boa Side Show 1889 Circus sideshow cabinet freak photo with a great boa constrictor snake wrapped in a warm embrace with a Victorian lovely. Nice saddle pattern on the boid and interesting boots, dress on the performer. Photographer is S. B. Van Ness Great Bend Pennsylvania Pa.
 

Fat Man Antique Circus Freak Cabinet Photograph 1898 Hugh L. Stout 500 Lbs. Main Circus 1898 Victorian Freak show photo. This Ralph Cramden wannabe was photographed by Boonton photographer
 

Snakewoman Zula Zelick Circus Antique Photograph 19th c SNAKE . Big Boa Constrictor bold lady. This old circus freak side show Carte De Visite cdv image has great detail. Snakeskin pattern on the big snake. Traveling circus sideshows often boasted of a wild Circassian Queen or wild man. These folks were almost always just American ladies with hair teased up in an exotic way, who were paid to excite Victorian morals. This photo circa 1870 has strong detail and remains one of the better circus memento photos we have seen.

Maidens Memoirs has several other snake woman photos as well as many circus freak and little people photos. Our other 2 Tias web shps TearDrop Memories, a great place for postmortem collectibles and North Fork Pets And Antiques, the webs best source for antique animal items has several other snake related items.