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Miscellaneous Acts |
Real Photo Postcard, circa 1925 of Langevin "Eye-Smoking" |
| Working Acts | Musical Oddities | Unusual Artists & Craftsmen |
| Burkhart,
Melvin "Originator of Human Blockhead" Hubbell, Art
"Blockhead" Electricia "The Girl Who Tames Electricity" [d] Electric Man [d] {See Also "Swordswallowers"} {See Also "Fireeaters"} {See Also "Tattooed"} {See Also "Human Pincushions"} {Sword Ladder} {Blade Box} |
Bayrooty "Whirling Dervishes"[ajax] Gardner
Roy "One Man Band" Le Petomane Marvello
"Fingerless Pianist" Miller, James Marion A., "Calico
Jim" Mortensen,
Mort "Piano Wonder"
Musical Johnstons "Xylophonists" Smith, Harold "Musical Drinking Glasses" {Scottish Bag Pipers} {Hawaiian Uke Bands} |
{Glassblowers} Bill Hart and His Dreamland Glass Workers [ajax101] {Wire-Benders} {Chainsaw Sculpters} Blystone,
E.L. "Microscopic Writer" Homma
"The Rice Writer" Zaharee,
James W. "Microscopic Writer" Morrell,
Prof. & Mrs."Jack-Knife King & Queen" Burke,
Henry Paul "Ambidextrous Cartoonist" Thorpe,
Clarence "Blindfolded
Cartoonist" Warren, C.E. (Dixie) "Comic Trick Cartoonist" |
| Gurners & Grimacers | Unclassified | Human Ostrichs (& Regurgitators, Water Spouters, Glass Eaters, etc.) |
| Everhart,
Robert "Gurning
& Grimacing" Lewis,
Forest "Man of Many Faces" Whittaker,
Paul "The Eye-Popper" McWilliams,
Paul "Big Mouth"
"Three Ball Charlie" (also "Congo") [blk 0-782] Strange Talents Deal, Edward, "Forehead Smoker"
[jm]
Langevin, Alfred ("Eye-Smoker" Blows Out Candle with Eye) Mr. Charles (Blows Bubbles Through His Ears) [mm124] Moratado "The Crucified Man" Perry, "Pop Eye" Pop-Eye Perry Popeye The Sailor [d] Smoko, "Man With Two Mouths" (With Johnny Jones, 1934) [bg] Smoky (also "Smokey", George Vokal?) Hall,
Earl "Smoky"
Athletic Shows Bicyclists (Diavolo etc.) Pit Shows Palmistry & "Mitt Camps" Punch & Judy Spiritualists Thrill Shows
Wax Shows
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• Fielding,
Eugene & Wife "Tattooed
People Eating, Sleeping and Smoking Underwater"
[ajax101]
• "Cannon-Ball" Richards "The Human Target" [ajax201] •
Edema,
Edward "Human
Automobile Tire" • Frozo "The World's Famous" [d] •
Stone, John R.
"The Miracle
Man-Human or Robot?" • Hermann "Expansionist" (with 1904 Barnum and Bailey) • Wood, J.C. "Whiskers Of Live Bees", "King of Bees" [ajax101] • Zeller "The Only Man Passing His Body Through A Keyhole" [ajax101] • Princesse Dalhi "Suspended Animation" [d] • Swan, Bert "Alligator-Fighter" [d] • Sylvester, Fred, Progeny Whirler [d] • Wells, Billy "Stonehead" [mr154] • Mandy, James "The Man With The Iron Skull" [ajax301] • Edna La Blance "Mac Kassow" "The Girl You Cannot Lift" • Mesmerizing Rings [d,ajax99] • Lady Bag Puncher [lauther] • Master Wade Cochran, 6 Year Old Mental Prodigy (with Barnum & Bailey 1898-99) [jm] |
Alfonso "Human Ostrich" [ajax101] Miss May Bunting "Lady Glass Eater" (Chatham Museum 1883) [d] Digesto "The Human Ostrich" (Hubert's Museum, 1960's: Eats Tacks, Glass Razor Blades) [d] English Jack [JB] Grendol,
Joseph "Swallows All"
Hadji
Ali "The Human
Fountain"
Kanichka
"Man With Ostrich Stomach" Norton, Mac (also Max) "L'Homme Aquarium" [mm125] Rohrl, Hans "The Human Water Spout" [d] Waldo The Great (D. Waldow) "Mouse Regurgitator" (Hubert's Museum, 1960's) Wilton, Max (imitator of Mac Norton?) "Human Aquarium"
{Black Tent Cinema} {Crime Shows} {Drug and Dope Shows} {Illusion Shows} {Menageries} {Mechanical & Miniature Shows} {Monkey Speedway} {Motordrome} {Panoramas} {Religious Shows} {Shadowography} {Staged Train & Auto Wrecks} {Torture Shows}
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[blk] Bernard L. Kobel Catalogue [dpm] Daniel P. Mannix [d] doghouse collection [JB] Jan Bondeson [rb] Robert Bogdan [rj] Ricky Jay [kkk] Kunhardt [mm] Martin Monestier [bg] Bob Goldsack
[jm] James Mundie
Multi-talented, appears in more than one category.
Appeared
in Robert Ripley museum or cartoon.
Full
article needed and/or forthcoming.
(This page last updated 9/17/05)