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Photos of performer Josephine Joseph

From contemporary "pitch folder". (Promotional materials for her show?) Reproduced in Joe Nickell, Secrets of the Sideshows, University Press of Kentucky (2005), ISBN 0813123585, p. 197.

c. 1935 (says age 22; she was born in 1913)

Unknown

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"Pitch folder" showing performer Josephine Joseph.

From c. 1934 "pitch folder". (Promotional materials for her show?) Reproduced in Joe Nickell, Secrets of the Sideshows, University Press of Kentucky (2005), ISBN 0813123585, p. 197.

Josephine Joseph

entire image, necessary to appreciate maleness/femaleness

yes

to illustrate Josephine Joseph, a freak show performer known for her male/female appearance

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