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Collection: Documents - Catalog Card
| EXCERPT: Most of these humble and unfortunate individuals whose sole means of livelihood is the exhibition of their physical infirmities to a gaping and unsympathetic crowd, are pathological rarities worthy of more serious study than they usually receive.... |
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| TITLE: |
"Circus And Museum Freaks -- Curiosities Of Pathology" |
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| DATE: |
March 28, 1908 |
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Article |
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Magazine |
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Scientific American |
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Available at selected libraries |
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p.222 |
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| KEYWORDS: |
African-American, Charles Stratton (Tom Thumb), Circus, Cognitive Disability, Employment, Entertainment, Freak Show, Idiocy, Medicine, Museums, Phineas T. Barnum, Physical Disability, Popular Culture, Short Stature |
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