Melted and damaged mannequins after a fire at Madam Tussaud's Wax Museum in London.

Patrons at Hell's Cafe in Paris, which shut down some time in the mid-20th century.

The contestants at a beauty pageant that didn't want to judge them on their looks.

A terrifying vintage Halloween costume.

A Mickey Mouse gas mask, which was used to make the devices more appealing to children.

Myrtle Corbin, who was born in 1868 with an extra pelvis. Myrtle spent her early years in a circus sideshow.

An early example of "horsemanning", the 1920's version of "planking."

A woman undergoes anti-freckle treatment.

Two engineers fix a Disney animatronic.

Two parents posed with their dead daughter in the middle.

Two women wearing bird headdresses have a chat.

An early family photo gone creepily-wrong.

A girl who grew up in a concentration camp draws a picture of “home” while living in a "residence for disturbed children."

American troops in Brewster body armor.

Mental patient Katharina Detzel, who built her own man out of the straw in her bed.

Two clowns and Santa visit a girl in hospital.

Children on Halloween

Santa wasn't always cheerful.

Contestants at a "Miss Lovely Eyes" pageant in Florida. They wore masks so that judges only scored them on their eyes.

A nurse and a new born baby pose in their gas masks.

A meeting of the Mickey Mouse Club.

The poor man's Halloween costume.

Two patrons at the Rothschild "Illuminati" party.

Ella Harper, who suffered from a disorder that weakens the ligaments in the knees, was known as Camel Girl.

A Navajo man dressed up as a Nayenezgani spirit.

Ventriloquist Jules Vernon with his horrifying family of puppets.

An Iron Lung ward used for treating children with polio.

Boys returning from their initiation into the Poro, a secret society in parts of Africa.

Max Schreck sitting in between takes of the silent movie Nosferatu: A Symphony of Horror

The isolater, a hood that shut out all sound.

A shell shocked soldier gives a thousand yard stare.