History
The exhibition of human oddities has a long history:
1630s
Lazarus Colloredo, and his parasitic twin brother, John Baptista, who was attached at Lazarus' sternum, tour Europe.[2]
1704–1718
Peter the Great collected human oddities at the Kunstkammer in what is now St. Petersburg, Russia.[3]
1738
The exhibition of a creature who "was taken in a wook at Guinea; 'tis a female about four feet high in every part like a woman excepting her head which nearly resembles the ape."[4]
1884
Joseph Merrick, exhibited as "The Elephant Man" by Tom Norman in London's East End.[5]
1932
Tod Browning's Pre-Code-era film Freaks tells the story of a traveling freakshow. The use of real freaks in the film provoked public outcries, and the film was relegated to obscurity until its re-release at the 1962 Cannes Film Festival.[6]
1960
Albert-Alberta Karas[7] (two siblings, each half man, half woman) exhibits with Bobby Reynolds on sideshow tour.
2010
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