Ella Harper: The "Camel Girl" Who Became The Biggest Circus Act of the 19th Century
发布时间 2017-06-29 17:58:03 来源
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Ella Harper was a circus performer who was born with a rare condition called congenital genu recurvatum … which caused her knees to bend backwards … like a camel. Her preference to walk on all fours, opposed to hanging in there and standing up like a champion, which earned her the nickname “The Camel Girl”… and her own circus act.
Harper was the main act in W. H. Harris’s Nickel Plate Circus, earning 200 dollars a week in 1886, roughly 5 grand in today’s dollars. Her act became one of the most popular circus acts in its day, especially as she was just a teenager at the time.
Harper hung up her cleats and retired some years later, reportedly moving to Tennessee where she married a man … and was never heard from again. She then died in 1921. One of the most memorable circus artists of the 19th century.
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