Julia Pastrana Mexican Woman exhibited as the Bearded Lady, The Ape Woman, The Bear Woman & The Baboon Lady in the Nineteenth Century
From the Living races of Mankind pub circa 1900 Julia Pastrana (1834-1860), a woman from Mexico became one of the most famous human curiosities of the 19th century, exhibited alive & after death as a bearded lady, the Ape Woman, the Bear Woman, The Nondescript, or the Baboon Lady. In fact she was born with hypertrichosis which accounted for the hair on her face & body & gingival hyperplasia, which thickened her lips and gums Her showman husband Theodore Lent married & impregnated her, but the baby died & she died some days later. Afterwards her husband met a professor Sokolov an expert in mummification, taxidermy, & embalming, and had her body & that of the son embalmed for display in the anatomical museum. Afterwards Lent used an escape clause in the contract to enable him to take the bodies on tour.
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