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Mitsuru Ohba and John Benson abomb-admin@sel.cs.hiroshima-cu.ac.jp Living Skeletons and Fat People Living Skeleton carte de visite, 4 x 2.5 inches, 1883 stamped with photographer’s logo on reverse, and signed in pencil "John J. Smith" photographer: E. ugoto S. Dunshee & Co., No. 3. Tremont Row, Boston The freakshow relished contrasts, many not very ugoto subtle. Consequently, the extremely thin were as much in demand for sideshows as the extremely obese. This young man, John J. Smith, was apparently exhibited in Boston alongside his polar opposite, fat boy W. S. Burt. John J. Smith’s condition may have been due to any number of causes, but very often such an appearance was due to glandular disorders, diseases such as scarlet fever and tuberculosis, or extreme muscular atrophy.
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