{Old Ads} Worth's Palace Museum

United States
May 21, 2020 7:36am CST
This was clipped from The evening world (New York, N.Y.), November 13, 1888, (SPORTING EDITION) I chose this one because most of us have surely heard of these types of places. Circuses, or attractions with oddities. It still goes on today, but more heavily staged, I'd imagine. I can not imagine what it would have been like to be an "attraction", even if one was wearing heavy make up and using trickery of the eye to make things seem more feasible. I also doubt that they had a very happy existence.
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LindaOH
@LindaOHio (222412)
• United States
21 May 20
For some of these people it was the only employment they could get.
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AmberLynn
@ScribbledAdNauseum (104615)
• United States
21 May 20
Yes, exactly! Social outcasts, maybe even previously imprisoned... They did what they could just to survive.
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Lavanya
@Lavanya15 (12888)
• Chennai, India
21 May 20
Sounds good.. Take care
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OceanTiara
@RebeccasFarm (91297)
• United States
21 May 20
These are so awesome Amber.
AmberLynn
@ScribbledAdNauseum (104615)
• United States
21 May 20
I'm just amazed by the printer's artwork. That would not have been easy to get right.
Mrki Krki
@mrki444 (15162)
• Croatia (Hrvatska)
21 May 20
I think it is similar to be actor in theather.
AmberLynn
@ScribbledAdNauseum (104615)
• United States
21 May 20
Those who were in the circus of the past were usually grotesque in one way or another. Not always, but they may have also been social outcasts.
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Mrki Krki
@mrki444 (15162)
• Croatia (Hrvatska)
21 May 20
@ScribbledAdNauseum Sometimes criminals too.
AmberLynn
@ScribbledAdNauseum (104615)
• United States
21 May 20
@mrki444 I am sure.
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