Carnival - Circus -
Sideshow
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gathered for and by those who want to dig into the history
of sideshows. Much of it is possible through the courtesy
of James Taylor, Slim Price, Amy Johnquest and many others
who have shared and will share information that will help
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A Pictorial History of
The American Carnival, Vol 1-111, Joe McKennon,
Carnival Publishers of Sarasota, 1972
All About Carnivals,
Gene Sorrows, American Federation of Police, 1985
America In Wax,
Gene Gurney, Crown Publishere Inc. 1977
P.T. Barnum: America,s
Greatest Showman, Phillip Kunhardt, Jr., Phillip
B. Kunhardt 111, and Peter W. Kunhardt, Alfred A. Knopf,
1995
Buckland,s Curiosities
of Natural History, Francis Buckland. The
BatchworthPress, 1948
Carnival Gaffs,
Walter Gibson, Gambler,s Book Club, 1976
Carnival, Arthur
H. Lewis, Trident Press, 1970
Circus Lingo,
Joe McKennon, Carnival Publishers of Sarasota, 1980
The County Fair Carnival
- Where the Midway Meets the Grange, Chemung
County Historical Society, 1992
Curiosities Of Human
Nature, S.G. Goodrich, Bradbury & Soden, 1843
Eve and The Apes.
Emily Hahn, Weidenfeld and Nicholson, 1988
Freak Show: Sideshow
Banner Art, Carl Hammer and Gordon Bosker
Chronical Books 1996
Freak Show Man - The
Autobiography of Harry Lewiston, as told to Jerry
Holtman, Holloway House Publishing Co. 1968
Freaks! Vol 1 - 5,
Chris Fellner
Freaks - We Who Are Not
As Others, Daniel P. Mannix, Pocket Books, 1976
Freaks,Geeks, and
Strange Girls - Sideshow Banners Of The Great American
Midway, R. Johnson, J. Secreto, & T. Varndell
eds., Hardy Marks Publications, 1995
Weird & Wonderful: The
Dime Museum in America. New York University Press,
1997.
Special Cases: Natural
Anomalies and Historical Monsters. Rosamund W.
Purcell. Chronicle Books, San Francisco. 1997.
Freaks: Myths & Images
of the Secret Self. Leslie Fiedler. New York:
Anchor Books, 1978. Collectors & Curiosities: Paris and
Venice, 1500 - 1800. Krzysztof Pomian. Cambridge: Polity
Press, 1990.
Finders Keepers:
Treasures and Oddities of Natrual History, Collectors from
Peter the Great to Louis Agassiz. Jay Gould New
York: W. W. Norton, 1992.
Signs & Portents:
Monstrous Births from the Middle Ages to the Enlightenment.
Dudley Wilson. London: Routledge, 1993.
On Monsters & Marvels.
Ambroise Pare translated by Janis L. Pallister. Chicago:
Chicago University Press, 1982.
Anomalies & Curiosities
of Medicine. George M. Gould and Walter L. > Pyle.
New York: Bell Publishing, 1973.
"The Petrified Man," in
A Curtain of Green and Other Stories. Eudora Welty.
New York: Harcourt Brace, 1979.
"Those Extraordinary
Twins," in Pudd'nhead Wilson and Other Tales. Mark
Twain. Many editions. Oxford University Press.
On Longing: Narratives
of the Miniature, the Gigantic, the Souvenir, the
Collection. Susan Stewart. Durham, NC: Duke
University Press, 1993.
Freak Shows.
Robert Bogdan. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1988.
Grind Show - Weirdness
As Entertainment, Fred Olen Ray, American -
Independent Press, 1993
Historical Fairground
Scenes, Michael E. Ware MoorlandPublishing Co,
Inc., 1989
The History Of Noell's
Ark Gorilla Show, Mae Noell, Noell,s Ark
Publisher, 1979
Human Oddities Of The
Circus And Sideshow Of Yesterday And Today
-Complete List And Descriptive Text, Bernard L. Kobel ,
1974
Humbug - The Art
Of P.T. Barnum, Neil Harris, Little, Brown and Company,
1973
Indian Circus,
Mary Ellen Mark, Chronicle Books, 1993
Inside Teradome: An
Illustrated History Of Freak Film, Jack Hunter , >
Creation Books, 1995
The Life Of Buffalo
Bill, William F. Cody > Senate Western Classics,
1994
The Little People - An
Illustrated Look At Some Of The World's Most Engaging Men
and Women, Hy Roth and Robert Cromie, Everest
House, 1980
The Loves And Lives Of
The Hilton Sisters, Daisy and Violet Hilton,
Wonder Book Co. - No Date
The Making Of The Wizard
Of Oz, Aljean Harmetz, Pavillion Books Limited,
1989
Modern Primitives,
V.Vale and Andrea Juno eds. RE/ Search Publications, 1989
Monster Midway - An
Uninhibited Look At The Glittering World Of The Carny,
William Lindsay Gresham, Rhinehart & Company, Inc., 1953
The Monster Show,: A
Cultural History Of Horror, David J. Skol, W. W.
Norton and Company, 1993
My Very Unusual Friends,
Ward Hall, 1991
Nightmare Alley,
William Lindsay Gresham, > Carrol & Graf Publishers, Inc.
1974
Pandemonium, - "Special
Freaks, Magicians, and Movie Stars issue, > Living
Color Productions, 1989
Step Right Up!,
Dan Mannix, Harper & Brothers, 1951
Sir Benjamin Stone's
pictures: Records Of National Life And History, Vol 1,
Festivals, Ceremonies And Customs, Sir Benjamin
Stone, Cassel and Co. Lmtd ,No date.
Struggles And Triumphs,
P.T. Barnum > Penguin Classics, 1981
Very Special People -
The Struggles, Loves And Triumphs Of Human Oddities,
Frederic Drimmer Amjon Publishing, 1973
James Taylor,s Shocked
And Amazed! On and Off The Midway, Volume 1 - 7
James Taylor, Dolphin - Moon Press and Atomic Books Of
Baltimore, Maryland
James Taylor,s On and
Off The Midway, James Taylor, Dolphin - Moon Press
and Atomic Books Of Baltimore, Maryland
Memoirs Of A Sword
Swallower, First Photo - Illustrated Edition,
Daniel P. Mannix, V/Search Publications, 1950 - 1951
The Two, The Story Of
The Original Siamese Twins, A Biography, Irving
Wallace and Amy Wallace, Simon and Shuster, 1978
Freakery: Cultural
specticals of the extraordinary body. Edited by
Rosemarie Garland Thomson. New York University Press 1996.
The Biggest, The
Smallest, The Longest, the Shortest, A chronical of the
American Circus fron its heartland. Dean Jenson,
Wisconsin House Book Publishers, 1975
Step Right Up! The
Adventure Of Circus In America, LaVahn G. Hoh &
William H. Rough, Betterway Publications, Inc.1990 "-
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