Nineteenth century albinism

Here is a site with a collection of pictures of albinos in the eighteenth and nineteenth century. It is quite interesting but also curious to see that really regular people were “collected” and exhibited in a circus, or photographed as something special!
Here are some of my fellow countrymen, with interesting hairdo.”>
Here are pictures of [...]

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Victorian mermaids

The Fejee mermaid came into Barnum’s possession via his Boston counterpart Moses Kimball, who brought it down to Barnum in late spring of 1842. On June 18, Barnum and Kimball entered into a written agreement to exploit this “curiosity supposed to be a mermaid.” Kimball would remain the creature’s sole owner and Barnum would lease [...]

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