After her husband died in 1928, she toured the world as a bearded lady – previously, she had twice turned down Phineas T Barnum who had tried to recruit her for his Barnum & Bailey Circus ...

And one such bearded lady who found fame because of her hirsute face had connections to Northern Michigan. Grace Gilbert was born in 1876 in Ohio, and according to her parents, she had hair all ...

The film restages a photograph of the ‘bearded lady’ Annie Jones (1865 – 1902 ... first with the Barnum Circus and then later with her own show. The photograph of Annie Jones crosses ...