Skin-Oddities

~Alligator-Skinned

~Elephant-Skinned

~Armadillo-Skinned

~Rubber-Skinned

~Elastic-Skinned

~Blue Men, Human Slates, etc.

(see also Albino, Piebald & Spotted)

Aloa, The Armadillo Boy (also Aloha)

Emmit Bejano "The Alligator-Skinned Man" "Lobello" [lauther]

Fickling, William Z. "The Human Slate" [blk 0-366]

Haig, "Elastic Skin Man" [ajax101]

John, The Alligator Boy 

Knotty Man, The 
Lake, Etta, "Elastic Skin Girl"

Leopard Skin Kaffir
Loos, Arthur 

Morris, James (also James Maurice & William Maurice) "Elastic Skin Man" [d][e]

Nels Nelson [e]

Ralph The Elephant (Skin) Man

Roland, F.C. "India Rubber Man"

Rose & Paul "Elephant-Skin Children"[mr62]

Rubber Neck Harry [ajax101]

Rubber Nelson

Spanner, Peter "Rubber-Skin" [mm123, ss15]
Schmidt, Agnes C. "Rubber Skinned Woman" 

Suzi, "The Elephant Skin Girl" (also, "Sousi" [ajax101],"Susie", "Christine") [blk 0-367]

Tony, The Alligator Boy (also, Toni and Toney)

Fred Walters "The Blue Man" [blk 0-380-381]
Williams, John R. (John H.?) "Alligator-Skinned Man" [blk 0-362-363,dpm101]

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Unidentified Skinny Alligator-Skinned Man [d]
Unidentified Elastic Skin Man [d]

[blk] Bernard L. Kobel Catalogue
[dpm] Daniel P. Mannix
[d] doghouse collection
[e] Elizabeth Anderson
[rb] Robert Bogdan 
[rj] Ricky Jay
[kkk] Kunhardt 
[mm] Martin Monestier
[ss] Signor Saltarino

 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 5/29/05)

Real Photo Postcard of Nels Nelson (id'ed by Elizabeth

Anderson) Circa 1908.