#sideshow art

Sideshow banner for the beautiful Dot Carlson … zoom to see the small sign tacked to her midriff advising the disappointed patron that Dot was “absent today.”

But That Was Long Ago . . .

Auria Virelle doing a sideshow performance at The House of Horror's Valentine's Massacre Market (Lowell, MA)

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I’ve been seeing this fun piece of art, depicting a sideshow fat man, for years but don’t have any information on its provenance …

Still photo from the American silent short film Circus Day (1919), published in the December 20, 1919 edition of Exhibitors Herald.

Art by GIAN GALANG