Tuesday, 6 October 2026

Ella Harper, known as the Camel Girl, a circus and amusement show entrepreneur in the US

Antique sepia photograph of a girl with long curly hair on all fours, looking at the camera.

But jokes aside, the photograph shows Ella Harper (1870-1921), known from childhood as the Camel Girl, an impresaria of amusement and circus shows in the USA. She drew the public's curiosity by her manner of getting about, on all fours, which was owing to the peculiar structure of her knee joints

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