These people were an extremely popular attraction with showmen,
because of their unusual and primitive appearance.


They were promoted as "Darwin's missing link" or the surviving children of a lost civilization

(i.e. The Ancient Aztec Children, the Wild Men of Borneo, etc.)

 

Schlitzie - Simon Metz

 

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Les Derniers Azteques

La Femme Bartola

Les Derniers Azteques

L'Homme Maximo

Maximo & Bartola

The Aztecs

Maximo & Bartola

The Aztecs

Maximo & Bartola

by Charles Eisenmann


 

Aztecs from Ancient Mexico

Maximo & Bartola

The Aztecs

Maximo & Bartola

Maximo & Bartola

Maximo & Bartola


Aztecs from Ancient Mexico Front

Aztecs from Ancient Mexico Back

Maximo & Bartola

Maximo & Bartola

Maximo & Bartola with Albino Man


the Two Small Heads 

Schlitzie

Schlitzie

Schlitzie

Schlitzie

Schilizie

Schilizie

Schilizie

Schilizie

Schilizie


Schlitzie

Zip, Schilizie

 What is it?

Currier & Ives

Lithograph

 What is it?

Currier & Ives

Lithograph

Zip

the What Is It?


Zip

Zip

Circa 1880

William H. Johnson

Zip

Zip & Ash

 What is it?


]

Zip

the What is it?

Zip

William Henry Johnson

aka Zip

Zip

the What is it?

What is it?


Zip

the What is it?

Zip

 

MOKO

the Missing Link

Image Titled

The Pin Head

Kiko & Sulu

Pinheads

From Zanzibar


Kiko & Sulu

German East Coast of Africa

Lowest Type of Humanity

From Zanzibar

Kiko & Sulu

Pinheads

From Zanzibar

Ringling Bros. & Barnum & Bailey''s

Combined Shows

Les Himalayas

circa 1900

Les Himalayas

exhibition

Luna Park circa 1900

 

Australian Children


the Wild

Australian Children

the Wild

Australian Children

Aztec Midgets

Aztecs 

Gondio

the Missing Link 


Gondio & Apexia

Gondio & Apexia

Ringling Bros Circus

Gondio & Apexia

the Hindu Pin Heads

PIP and FLIP  

Zippo & Flippo

Pip, Flip, Schlitzie

other cast member of Tod Browning's Freaks

PIP and FLIP  

World Circus Sideshow

Coney Island NY

PIP and FLIP  

World Circus Sideshow

Coney Island NY

Wild People

from Africa

Wild People

from Africa


the Aztecs

the Aztec Girls

from Mexico

A-GO The Mexican Wonder Dominion Park

Montreal, Canada

Athelia

Circa 1928

Athelia

Monkey Girl

Pete Kortes Show


Pigmy's from

Abbyssinnia

Pigmy's from

Abbyssinnia

Pigmy's from

Abbyssinnia

Pigmy's from

Abbyssinnia

Pigmy's from

Abbyssinnia

With Half & Half


 

 

Pigmy's from

Abbyssinnia

on Bally Platform

On the Bally Stage On the Ticket Box On Bally Stage

Chinese Wonders

Chang The Pin Head  Chinese


Pin Heads

Pin Heads

Pin Heads

 

Pin Heads

Bally Platform

 

Staged Photograph

circa 1930


Madagascar Wonder

Performer on Bally Platform

Estics Hutty & Tain

 
Tik Tak 

Arsa

 circa 1914 


Aztecs Indian Midgets A-GO The Mexican Wonder SOUVENIR OF THE FAIR HARTFORD, CONN

Pigmy's from

Abbyssinnia

Kiko & Sulu

Pinheads

From Zanzibar

Schilizie

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

PIP and FLIP  

       

The Gorilla Men Cannibals and Nature

What Is It?

Modern Banner

Missing Link

Reproduction

Pin Head Banner

by Mark Frierson

Pin Head Banner

Capt Harvey Boswell's

Palace of Wonder

 


 

 

Circus Poster   

Aztec Children

Card Noting the

Death of William

Johnson Zip

The Wild

Australian Children

Broadside

Pip, Flip, Schlitzie

Lobby Card  from  Tod Browning's Freaks 


 

Pigmy's

from

Darkest Africa

Poster   

Banner King Bros. 

Pin Head Close-up

Banner King Bros.

S. Watson

American Museum


   

 

   

Busts of People

who are Microcephalic 

       

 


 

 


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