Seeing Is Believing is a history of midway attractions and the showmen who have presented them on American midways from the 1870s to World War II. Find out who manufactured the
Polly-Moo-Zuke, the Two-Headed Giant, and the Devil Fish. Hear showmen’s stories of hoochie coochie dancing bears, monkeys racing miniature racecars, and the strange people who made a living
eating snakes. See war criminals, wax outlaws, and papier mâché torture victims. Learn about illusion on the midway and how "free" Iron Lung and Wildlife shows were anything but; who
suspected you had to pay to leave? Hear the barker say: Come in! Trained fleas, people exhibited in ice, and girls that change into gorillas are all inside! Under canvas, the hottest black
nightclub acts perform for you in black revue shows. Many attractions are alive. Hundreds more are dead, stuffed, or mummified. Never has so much been on show for so little a price!
Attractions you may never see again ? Take a twisted journey with the last of America’s real showmen, from an age when performers earned every nickel of your 25 cents.
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Circus and Carnival Ballyhoo
$803 -
The Circus Book: 1870-1950
$1,936 -
Never Quote the Weather to a Sea Lion: And Other Uncommon Tales from the Founder of the Big Apple Circus
$698 -
Applause: A Second Chance
$998 -
Freak Babylon: An Illustrated History of Teratology & Freakshows
$593 -
Clown: Readings in Theatre Practice
$4,950 -
The Fundamentals of Flying Trapeze
$1,350 -
Cirque Global: Quebec’s Expanding Circus Boundaries
$1,708 -
Cirque Global: Quebec’s Expanding Circus Boundaries
$4,950 -
The American Circus
$2,275 -
Circus As Multimodal Discourse: Performance, Meaning, and Ritual
$6,750 -
The Ordinary Acrobat: A Journey into the Wondrous World of Circus, Past and Present
$593 -
The Education of a Circus Clown: Mentors, Audiences, Mistakes
$4,455 -
Costume and Design for Devised and Physical Theatre
$1,048 -
Juggling for Beginners: 25+ Tricks to Astound Your Friends
$453 -
The Circus Studies Reader
$7,200 -
The Acrobat: Arthur Barnes and the Victorian Circus
$900 -
Sideshow Banners 2013
$490 -
The Rise of the American Circus, 1716-1899
$2,025 -
Girl Show
$628