L0081820 S. Watson's American Museum of Living Curiosities. Credit: Wellcome Library, London. Wellcome Images Racial types and people with physical abnormalities exhibited at S. Watson's American Museum of Living Curiosities, 28 Oxford St., London. Colour lithograph. The ethnic types depicted are the following: "African", head of an African man; "Australians", two aborigines in exotic dress; "North American Indian", man wearing head-dress; "Mexican", wearing sombrero; "Soudanese", wearing a turban. The curiosities depicted are the following:
L0081820 S. Watson's American Museum of Living Curiosities. Credit: Wellcome Library, London. Wellcome Images Racial types and people with physical abnormalities exhibited at S. Watson's American Museum of Living Curiosities, 28 Oxford St., London. Colour lithograph. The ethnic types depicted are the following: "African", head of an African man; "Australians", two aborigines in exotic dress; "North American Indian", man wearing head-dress; "Mexican", wearing sombrero; "Soudanese", wearing a turban. The curiosities depicted are the following: "A living mystery.", a woman without body below the waist; "The stoutest lady in the world", a fat lady; "Snake charmer", sitting cross-legged, holding two snakes; "The tallest and shortest woman in the Universe, (pretty and of good figures)"; "Neither arms nor legs.", a man without a body below the waist and without arms, placed on the seat of an armchair; "The twoheaded marvel.", a woman who appears to have two heads; "The finest head of hair ever seen.", a woman with long blonde hair down to the ground; "The fat boy"; "The tallest and shortest man in the world. These men are the long and the short of it", the tall man lighting a cigarette from the flame at the top of a gas lamp, the short man standing at the foot of the lamppost. In the centre are are a lion-tamer, a conjurer, and a ventriloquist. Colour Lithograph By: S. Watson's American Museum of Living Curiosities (London, England)Published: - Copyrighted work available under Creative Commons Attribution only licence CC BY
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