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Meet Thomas Inglefield: A Peek into the Pages of “Kirby’s Wonderful and Eccentric Museum”

Reminiscences of the Elephant Man, Now Available

The Time a Bearded Lady Went to Jail to Grow a New Beard

Thomas Schweicker, the Calligrapher Who Didn’t Need Hands or Arms

Alfred Pilgrim: The Boy Who Lived without Arms and Legs

Anatomy Takes on All Forms at Amsterdam’s Museum Vrolik

Ezekiel Eads, the Earless Man Who Heard Through His Mouth

Freaky Fish Collections in the 1930s

Brief Notes on Martin Laurello, the Human Owl

A Rambling Description from 1820 of Armless Wonder John Valerius

How to Become a Three-Legged or Four-Legged Woman if You’re Not One Already

200 Words About the Man with Two Noses and Three Eyes

Nikolai Kobelkoff: No Arms, No Legs, Lots of Everything Else

Daniel Lambert and the Origins of Obesity on Exhibition

Inside the Never-Before-Seen Scrapbook of the Rubber Skin Lady, a 1930s-era Sideshow Star

The Wonderful and Eccentric Lazarus Colloredo and his Parasitic Twin

Medusa Van Allen: The Woman Who Couldn’t Grow

Struggles and Triumphs: The Life of the Bearded Lady

