Carnival of Sorts

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October, 1931.

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Cheery, Cherry Day «  i feel it too

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Julia Pastrana spoke three languages fluently, and was an excellent dancer and speaker. She married her manager, Theodore Lent, of whom very little seems to be known. Six years into her career, she became pregnant; she and her child died in childbirth. Lent had Pastrana’s body preserved, and continued to exhibit her after her death. She was exhibited until 1976 in Norway, when the police apparently confiscated and taken to a refrigerated coffin at the Institute of Forensic Medicine in Oslo. (Haakon Lund obtained possession of the body in 1921, but the Nazi regime ordered his admittedly-suspect museum destroyed in 1943, whereupon Pastrana’s body was transported to neutral Sweden.)

Some information here is common knowledge, but the story of Pastrana’s post-mortem comes from an unfavorable review of Julia Pastrana: The Tragic Story of the Victorian Ape Woman. Image taken from here.

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Umbo (Otto Umbehr) Untitled, ca.1932; photograph; gelatin silver print, 5 1/2 in. x 5 1/16 in. (13.97 cm x 12.86 cm); Collection SFMOMA

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I hadn’t seen this photograph before! Charles Tripp (famous for his displays of foot dexterity) and Eli Bowen (a well-known legless performer) ride tandem. Source.

Co-operation is the key, here. Wonderful.

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Ohhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh…. why do I always have to be the pony?!

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Where’s that dude’s belly button?

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