Dime museum
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Dime museums were establishments that grew in popularity starting from 1870 that were used to display freak show performers, human anatomy exhibitions, dioramas, oddities, and moral lectures to the ge
"The New Fake Museums" – 1889 cartoon suggesting that some dime museums were little more than scams
1885 advertisement for Robinson's Dime Museum and Theatre
Advertisement for Dime Museum, Harpers Ferry, West Virginia, 1903
Freak show
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A freak show is an exhibition of biological rarities, referred to in popular culture as "freaks of nature". Typical features would be physically unusual humans, such as those uncommonly large or small
Congress of Freaks at Ringling Brothers, 1924
A freak show in Rutland, Vermont in 1941
Coney Island and its popular ongoing freak show in August 2008.
P.T. Barnum's Own and Only Greatest Show on Earth appearing in Ithaca, New York on July 4, 1878