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Adventures in Theater Historyschmeterpitz@historians.social
2023-12-22

A sound clip from our new episode, with stories from Philadelphia stages during the winter celebrations of many different bygone eras.

"Holiday Show - 2023" is now available on Apple Podcasts, Spotify, or wherever you get your pods on! Or go right to our website: www.aithpodcast.com

We hope you all have a wonderful Holiday Season, and wish you a very Happy New Year!

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EdPOPEdPOP
2023-09-26

Human Deformities | EdPOP

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Andy Paciorek 💀☕AndyPaciorekArt
2023-06-17

Clown and dancer from Ringling Circus Birthday Pageant
~ Charles Weever Cushman (year unidentified)

A clown with arm around waist of a dancer by a circus trailer
2023-05-01

You'd have to really enjoy a circus performance to name your child after the company that presented it, but that's exactly what happened in the 1860s. Angevine June Titus and Company Favor (his actual name) grew up to plat the town of Pataha in Garfield County, Washington Territory in 1882. washingtonruralheritage.org/di

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Newspaper article about a man named Angevine June Titus and Company Favor, who was named for a circus.Photograph of the town of Pataha, Washington Territory in the 1880s. It shows a small procession of horse-drawn wagons (possible a circus) on a wide dirt road between a dozen or so wood frame buildings.
Andy Paciorek 💀☕AndyPaciorekArt
2023-01-03

Eko and Iko - The Men from Mars

George and Willie Muse, African American Albino brothers who were kidnapped and toured as circus exhibits.

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Eko and Iko - The Men from Mars 

a vintage photo of dreadlocked brothers George and Willie Muse, African American Albino brothers who were kidnapped and toured as circus exhibits.
WhirlUpSeaWhirlUpSea
2022-12-05

Anything we can do, performer Madame Yucca could do “genteel in the costume of the parlor” - not backwards, but undoubtedly in heels (and definitely in a serious corset!) (c. 1898)

A Forepaugh and Slees Circus poster featuring a series of vignettes showing strongwoman Yucca (civilian name Mary Carson,a muscular-armed European woman wearing an elegant black dress and opera gloves, performing feats of strength including lifting animals, people and furniture, and, in one case, supporting an anvil using only the strength of her jaw.The background of this image is yellow, and several highlighted props are red.

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