[Everyman enters a carnival sideshow gallery of freaks]

[Sideshow performers on stage before audience]

Enticing sideshow booth at the annual Iowa State Fair in the capital city of Des Moines

Enticing sideshow booth at the annual Iowa State Fair in the capital city of Des Moines

Enticing sideshow booth at the annual Iowa State Fair in the capital city of Des Moines

Enticing sideshow booth at the annual Iowa State Fair in the capital city of Des Moines

Enticing sideshow booth at the annual Iowa State Fair in the capital city of Des Moines

Enticing sideshow booth at the annual Iowa State Fair in the capital city of Des Moines

Enticing sideshow booth at the annual Iowa State Fair in the capital city of Des Moines

Fat-lady figure in a display of circus sideshow curiosities at Circus World Museum in Baraboo, Wisconsin, which is devoted to circus-related history

Tallest-woman and smallest-man figures in a display of circus sideshow curiosities at Circus World Museum in Baraboo, Wisconsin, which is devoted to circus-related history

[Coney Island sideshow]

The great rival advertising shows to "boom up" stocks

The great municipal "freak" - the New York tax-payer

Opening of the Democratic dime museum for 1900

The only booth in the fair - Portland & Co., late Shelburne

The national dime-museum - will be run during the presidential campaign

The streets of India in Durbar, Luna Park, Coney Island, N.Y.

Sideshows at carnivals

[Sideshow at carnival. The "only lady tattoist" on platform]

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