History: Freaks Of Nature

1704–1718 - Peter the Great collected human oddities at the Kunstkammer in what is now St. Petersburg, Russia.
1738 - The exhibition a creature who "was taken in a wook at Guinea; 'tis a female about four feet high in every part like a woman excepting her head which nearly resembles the ape."
1884 - Joseph Merrick, exhibited as "The Elephant Man" by Tom Norman in London's East End.
1932 - Tod Browning's Pre-Code-era film Freaks tells the story a traveling freakshow. The use real freaks in the film provoked public outcries, and the film was relegated to obscurity until its re-release at the 1962 Cannes Film Festival.