Sideshow Performers Collection
This digital collection is comprised of 19th century photographs of sideshow and dime museum “freak show” performers from SCRC's Ronald G. Becker Collection of Charles Eisenmann Photographs.
The majority of the photos are by American photographer Charles Eisenmann and his successor Frank Wendt, with many others by their contemporaries. These photographs of so-called “freak show” and sideshow performers had a profound influence on the developing understandings of diverse bodies and evolving photographic techniques in 19th and 20th century Europe and the United States.
Thumbnail images: Amy Arlington standing with snakes, undated (left, right). Syracuse University Libraries Ronald G. Becker Collection of Charles Eisenmann Photographs.
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