
Photo by Jim Sneed from the collection of Andy Yaffee
Jockey, Baby, and Foxy Grandpa
Schoenhut called this group the grotesques. This is
because their big heads were made out-of-proportion to their bodies. Foxy Grandpa was a popular comic character of the early
1900s. Baby is a baby doll and was probably used as a doll by children.
They were shown on a circus
flat platform wagon and called the grotesque in catalogs from ca 1910. Grotesque people were a
popular part of the side shows of early circuses.