“Freaks” category

The photograph depicts Ella Harper, nicknamed “The Camel Girl,” a famous 19th-century circus performer born in 1870 who had a rare orthopedic deformity (genu recurvatum) that allowed her to walk on all fours.

Ella Harper was born in Hendersonville, Tennessee, in the early 1870s.

Ella Harper’s knees were backward… Instead of bending forward, they bent backward. See for yourself👀

Unique piece, cabinet of curiosities