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Excerpt from: Zip, The ‘What Is It?’ Plays Host to All The Other Circus Freaks It’s seldom that an ordinary person dines with an armless woman, a sword swallower, a snake enchantress, a German giantess, a tattooed man, and Indian chief, a living skeleton, a 600-pound woman, two Lilliputians, a Somali warrior and the only “What Is It?” in captivity.... |  Read Full Text |
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| Title: | Zip, The ‘What Is It?’ Plays Host to All The Other Circus Freaks | |
| Creator: | n/a | |
| Date: | April 6, 1914 | |
| Format: | Article | |
| Publication: | New York World | |
| Source: | Available at selected libraries | |
| Location: | p.7 | |
| Keywords: | African American; Alcohol; Amputees; Ceremonies; Circus; Cognitive Disability; Employment; Entertainment; Entertainment, Leisure & Recreation; Freak Show; Giants; Identity; Labor; Media; Native American; New York; New York City, NY; Phineas T. Barnum; Physical Disability; Popular Culture; Public Relations; Short Stature; William Henry Johnson | |
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