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Angus McBean - Self-portrait, c. 1947.
André the giant (André René Roussimoff)
Alfred Hitchcock
Yale Joel - Rocket Ship Prize, Boy Wearing Space Helmet, 1954.
William C. Shrout - Strange scene at the 13th Anniversary Jinx-Jabbing Jamboree and Dinner of the Anti-Superstition Society of Chicago, December 1940.
Thomas D. McAvoy - Beekeeper’s hood is made of heavy cotton cloth riveted to screen with a small aperture for pipe.
Tall-Tale Postcard - Father works
Ralph Morse - Heart transplant patient George Debord examining his diseased heart, preserved in jar of alcohol, 1968.
Ralph Crane - Head of Mind Control Jack Gariss conducting group who are hooked-up to bioscope machines, March 1, 1972.
Nat Farbman - Brownie gets the milk as Blackie waits his turn, 1954.
Margaret Bourke-White - Startling papier-mache model of human skull exhibited by Clay-Adams Co. as part of a large model of the human nervous system w. number wires representing various nerves, at he American Assoc. for the Advancement of Science meeting,
Grey Villet - Naval researchers test the effects of being upside-down for prolonged periods of time in an attempt to learn about the disorientation astronauts would likely experience on space flights, 1958.
Bill Ray - Future NBA Hall of Famer and UCLA Bruins star Lew Alcindor (Kareem Abdul-Jabbar) being fitted for trousers with a 51-inch inseam, Beverly Hills, 1971.
Alfred Eisenstaedt - Comedic horse act, Greenbrier Valley Fair, W. Virginia, 1938.
Tall-Tale Postcard - We stopped here
Tall-Tale Postcard - Carottes géantes
Ringo Starr - Help, 1965.
Henry B. Walthall & Rafaela Ottiano - The Devil-Doll, 1936.
Grace Ford - The Devil-Doll, 1936.
Marc Raen
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Tall-Tale Postcard - A golf mine on the farm
Tall-Tale Postcard - Bringing home one of our big fish
David Lyle - Words of wisdom
nitratediva: Wallace Ford, Leila Hyams, and Johnny Eck in Tod Browning’s Freaks (1932).
David Lyle
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World war 1 clothing.
vieuxmetiers: Workers arranging the wind bracing for a temporary conveyor suspension bridge over Rattlesnake Canyon, 1935.
Wonderful World Revue performers Circus strongman Paul Remos and his six and seven year old sons feed a giraffe c. 1950.
Woman in a giant frying pan with bacon tied to her feet before 7200 eggs are added to a record breaking omelette, Sweden, Nov 1931.
William H. Martin - Tall-tale postcard - County Fair, 1908.
Wienke - Clown Pat Barney, 1959.
Wheeling and dealing, driver Jean Sunny, Paris, 1959.
What good is a night out if you can’t have champagne. And not everyone gets so many pretty gals to serve it, 11 Feb 1949.
Werner Bischof - Town of Edinburgh. Penguins from the zoo taking their weekly walk. The director of the zoo walks them through the city every week in order to attract people to the zoo, 1950.
Ice Cream Show Held In London In 1934.
Elizabeth Taylor by Weegee.
Weegee - Woman blowing a bubble, c. 1956.
Weegee - Woman Cab Driver and Macy’s Clown, ca. 1942-1943.
Weegee - Johnny Carson, ca. 1960.
Wedding pic, in Izu Island, the habitants use gas masks because there are high levels of sulfur in the air, due to volcanic activity.
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Tall-Tale Postcard - The big one that did'nt get away
Lou Costello & Bud Abbott - Abbott and Costello Meet Captain Kidd, 1952.
Janice Logan - Dr. Cyclops, 1940.
Harpo Marx - Marx Bros at the Circus, 1948.
Wanamaker’s Railway Express Car, 1924.
Wallace Kirkland - Vélo à roues carrées, Chicago, 1948.
Wallace Kirkland - Vélo à roues en pointes, Chicago, 1948.
Charlton Heston et Billy Curtis - La Planète des singes (Planet of the Apes), 1968.
Voiture à traction animale.
Vog socks
Vivian Maier - Chicago, 1956.
Vivian Leigh
Hippo Balloon Floating at the Thanksgiving Day Parade, Manhattan, 21 Nov 1940.
Johnson’s Baby Oil Powder Whoa, Mom!, Vintage Ad, 1947.
