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    The “Madame B Album” (ca. 1870s)
    Images / 
    Design & Typography, Novelty, Victorian

    The “Madame B Album” (ca. 1870s)

    Photographs of the Los Angeles Alligator Farm (ca. 1907)
    Images / 
    Animals & Beasts, Novelty

    Photographs of the Los Angeles Alligator Farm (ca. 1907)

    Downhill from Here: *The Slant Book* (1910)
    Books / 
    Humour & Satire, Novelty

    Downhill from Here: The Slant Book (1910)

    Art Brut: The Scare-Fox (1910)
    Images / 
    Animals & Beasts, Customs & Culture, Natural World, Novelty

    Art Brut: The Scare-Fox (1910)

    Playing Indian: *Cummings’ Indian Congress at Coney Island* (1903)
    Audio / 
    Customs & Culture, Novelty, People

    Playing Indian: Cummings’ Indian Congress at Coney Island (1903)

    Trimalchio in Newburyport: Timothy Dexter’s *A Pickle for the Knowing Ones* (1848)
    Books / 
    Novelty, People

    Trimalchio in Newburyport: Timothy Dexter’s A Pickle for the Knowing Ones (1848)

    Visualising Bubbles (1500–1906)
    Images / 
    Customs & Culture, Novelty, Politics, Religion, Myth & Legend, Science & Medicine

    Visualising Bubbles (1500–1906)

    *Unai no tomo*: Catalogues of Japanese Toys (1891–1923)
    Images / 
    Religion, Myth & Legend, Novelty

    Unai no tomo: Catalogues of Japanese Toys (1891–1923)

    Hieroglyphics of a Rope-Dancer: *The Book of Fate* (1822)
    Books / 
    Ghosts & Occult, Novelty, Strange Phenomena, Victorian

    Hieroglyphics of a Rope-Dancer: The Book of Fate (1822)

    A Modest Apology for the Man in the Bottle (1749)
    Books / 
    Strange Phenomena, Novelty

    A Modest Apology for the Man in the Bottle (1749)

    The Jester (1908)
    Film / 
    Novelty

    The Jester (1908)

    The Laughing Song (1904)
    Audio / 
    Novelty, Humour & Satire

    The Laughing Song (1904)

    Little Tich and his Big Boot Dance (1900)
    Film / 
    Novelty

    Little Tich and his Big Boot Dance (1900)

    The Somersault Man (1923)
    Film / 
    Novelty

    The Somersault Man (1923)

    The Kawana Trio (1919)
    Film / 
    Sport, Novelty

    The Kawana Trio (1919)

    Morning on the Farm (1897)
    Audio / 
    Novelty

    Morning on the Farm (1897)

    The Knife-Throwing Mother and her Children (1950s)
    Film / 
    Novelty

    The Knife-Throwing Mother and her Children (1950s)

    WW2 U.S. Soldier Drag Show (1942)
    Film / 
    War, Fashion, Novelty

    WW2 U.S. Soldier Drag Show (1942)

    Rae Bourbon
    Audio / 
    Novelty

    Rae Bourbon

    Farmer plays a song with ‘hand-farts’ (1933)
    Film / 
    The Arts, Novelty

    Farmer plays a song with ‘hand-farts’ (1933)

    Dog Factory (1904)
    Film / 
    Animals & Beasts, Novelty

    Dog Factory (1904)

    Santa Claus Proves There is a Santa Claus (1925)
    Audio / 
    Novelty

    Santa Claus Proves There is a Santa Claus (1925)

    Your Name Here (1960)
    Film / 
    Novelty

    Your Name Here (1960)

    VD is for Everybody (1969)
    Film / 
    Novelty

    VD is for Everybody (1969)

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