Agency through Otherness: Portraits of Performers in Circus Route Books, 1875-1925Main MenuIntroductionIntroduction to the book and information about ways to navigate the content.The American Experiment: Circus in ContextCircus performers and American history timelineRouting the Circus: The Things They CarriedCircus Routes Map, 1875-1925Ethnological Congresses and the Spectacleby Rebecca FitzsimmonsOutsiders in Demand: Chinese and Japanese Immigrant Performersby Angela Yon and Mariah WahlShattering Gender Roles: Women in the Circusby Elizabeth HarmanSide Show Sounds: Black Bandleaders Respond to ExoticismAnnexed Circus Musicians by Elizabeth C. HartmanNative Performance and Identity in The Wild West Showby Mariah WahlShowmen's Rests: The Final CurtainCircus Cemetery Plots by Elizabeth C. HartmanList of PerformersPerformers covered in this exhibitBibliography & Further ReadingsBibliography and readings for each chapterAcknowledgementsAngela Yon72f2fd7a28c88ceeba2adcf2c04fee469904c6f1
Laloo Ramparsad
12021-04-07T19:49:51-07:00Rebecca Fitzsimmons776fc8f5a4c40ba6b2ce5ef275d03821c12e0249382942plain2021-04-07T20:11:34-07:00Rebecca Fitzsimmons776fc8f5a4c40ba6b2ce5ef275d03821c12e0249Laloo Ramparsad performed under various names including “Laloo, the Happy Hindoo,” the "Double-Bodied Hindoo Boy," and the “Double Bodied Wonder.” He was born in Oovonin, Oudh, India and traveled with Barnum and other shows through America and Europe. Laloo was a participant in the Indignation Meeting held in London in 1899 that protested the use of the term “freaks.”
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12021-03-26T15:54:15-07:00Rebecca Fitzsimmons776fc8f5a4c40ba6b2ce5ef275d03821c12e0249The Barnum & Bailey greatest show on earth ... The peerless prodigies of physical phenomena & marvelous living human curiosities3Circus poster showing side show performers and circus visitors. Laloo, billed here as "The Double-Bodied Wonder" appears near the right side of the image.plain2021-03-28T20:15:36-07:00Library of Congress Prints and Photographs DivisionPrints and Photographs Division1899Still imageCircusSideshowsCircus performersEnglishNo known restrictions on publication.Circus postersimage/jpegStrobridge Lithographing Company213 x 576 cmRebecca Fitzsimmons776fc8f5a4c40ba6b2ce5ef275d03821c12e0249
