A digital collection of well over 100 bizarre antique surgical devices, adverts for eye-raising patent medicines and quack tonics, antique anatomical and surgical engravings, macabre old drawings, Victorian pathology photo plates, diseases, complaints, infections, freaks, medical procedures, etc. "Kill or Cure..." Great historical, academic (and morbid humor) interest! B&W and early color-tint images from original old US and European sources - textbooks, journals, etc. Infectious and congenital illnesses of yesteryear (now largely treatable or preventable) include scurvy, gout, syphilis, goitre... This ebook anthology is supplied as a PDF file for Acrobat Reader, with autoroll "slideshow" functionality and random transition effects between the images. Also includes tasters from some of our other recent titles! (Most of these images can also be supplied individually at high resolution quality, suitable for print reproduction or other professional presentations. Please contact webmaster@fisheseye.com for details.)

Strange But True! Bizarre Vintage Postcards

An amazing scrap book of old postcards and genuine photos from yesteryear, capturing some of the strangest portraits you'll ever see! A digital anthology of ethnological pictures of scary ladies from jungle tribes, tattooed warriors, weird French peasants, mysterious veiled Arabian women, oriental and and circus performers, Indian fakirs, freaks, pygmies and eskimos, real-life witches and wizards, pipe smoking dames, mind-boggling ethnic costumes, Victorian eccentrics... An album of bizarre curiosities from around the world, to download in PDF ebook format.

Edwardian Weird Freak Show - PDF Ebook / Photo Slideshow

A Bizarre Menagerie - humorous and entertaining collection of vintage Photo Postcard Curios, surreal and amusing photomontages, eccentrics and mutants. Tattooed, fat and scary ladies, tribal lip plates, giants, circus freaks... risqué fetish ladies, cannibals, snake charmers, chastity belts, pygmies, monster fish, medical and ethnological oddities, strange sports and oddball inventions. Classic images from the early 1900s, digitized and compiled as an e-book / slideshow album. Highly unusual and entertaining!

In PDF ebook format, with optional rolling slideshow functionality and random transition effects between images! In presentation mode this e-book makes a great alternative to a screensaver.

Vintage Tribal Body Art - A Photo Scrapbook

Dozens of early 20th century female portraits, ethnographic photographs of women featuring permanent body art, in digital format. An illustrated album in PDF ebook format for Acrobat Reader, with added rolling slideshow functions, and transition effects between images (great alternative to a screensaver, that you can browse at your own pace if you choose).

Primitive tattoos, fetishist scarification, ethnic piercings, lip plates and traditional ritual body markings. Fascinating and often strangely erotic photos of nude and semi-nude women from South and West African fetish-worshipping tribes such as the Cerere None, Diola, Foulah, Soussou, Malinke and Dahomey, and from the North Africa Casbahs and harems - tattooed Arab, Bedouin and Moorish beauties, as seen by photographers such as Fortier (a great influence on the work of Picasso!). Dancers, witches and sorceresses, chiefs' wives, brides, village beauties.... An unusual ethnographic collection for amateur anthropologists, fans of ethnic curios, tribal magic and religion, ethnology, voodoo and vintage erotica. Postcards and old photos, including color tinted images. (Art corporel, tatouages tribales, feticheuses africaines, scarifiées, piercées.)