The pain proof man : as cartooned by Robt. L. Ripley : world famous oddity

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  Museum of living wonders freaks curiosities and oddities : made famous by Robt. L. Ripley in newspaper cartoons

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  Image of a giant cowboy and two little people (or dwarfs).

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  International congress of oddities… presenting famous “believe it or not" subjects as cartooned by Robert L. Ripley

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  Image of a giant cowboy, a chimpanzee dressed in a tuxedo, and little people (or dwarfs).

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  New York World’s Fair Museum presents believe it or not” weight 540 lbs. : subjects as cartooned by Robt. L. Ripley

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  Image of fat lady Miss Bertha Curtis standing in a short dress.

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  [Proof sheet of six images with flowers, girl, thread, and pins]

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  Image of a proof sheet of six blank calendar pages (each with room for 2 months) with flowers, a young woman, socks and other clothing hanging on clotheslines, thread, and pins.

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  John A. Stevens - the only - the original. : The new unknown a river mystery

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  Image of a central image of a man with torn clothing lying face down in the bushes before a mansion with the caption "Uncared for, Unpitied, He Wanders Alone, A Creature of God, Forsaken, Unknown," with an image at left of a man in a rowboat rescuing a drowning man from the water with a bridge barely visible in the background, and an image at right of a man standing on a rock with waves crashing around him while holding a lifeless woman over his shoulder; the poster advertises a rewritten version of the melodrama "The Unknown" by John A. Stevens.

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  Robt. Downing as Spartacus : the gladiator

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