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The celebrated Mrs. Weston, six inches shorter than any woman travelling ... : also the Liliputian Dwarf, thirty years of age, and only thrity-two inches high ...

A male dwarf. Watercolour painting.

Chang Yu-sing the Chinese giant, with his wife, King-Foo and Chung Mow, a dwarf. Wood engraving, 1865.

S. Watson's Grand American Museum 28, Oxford Street : Living curiosities! From all parts of the world ...

The Royal American Midgets at the Piccadilly Hall : afternoon 2 till 5, evening 7 till 9.

[Leaflet advertising the "midgets' return to London":  General Mite, his father, E.F. Flynn and Miss Millie Edwards at the Imperial Theatre, adjoining the Royal Aquarium, London (1882?). It has a cartoon of General Mite being arrested by two policemen].

[Illustrated ticket to an exhibition of Aztec Lilliputians from Iximaya in central America and the Earthmen or Erdmanniges from under the earth in South Africa. Possibly 1855. Printed in red on white paper].

Royal Court Midgets.

General Tom Thumb and wife : in the identical costumes worn before her majesty, Queen Victoria, at Windsor Castle, June 24, 1865.

Minnie Warren's quadrille (sister of Mrs. Tom Thumb) / by Stephen Glover. Performed daily at Commodore Nutt's grand levée.

The long and the short of it : Nepalese aged 72 reaches the heights as the world's shortest ever man.

Two dwarfs: "Tom Thumb" (Charles Sherwood Stratton) (1838-1883) and his wife Lavinia Warren Stratton (1841-1919). Photograph, c. 1865.

Chondrodystrophic dwarfs in Denmark : (supplemented with investigations from Sweden and Norway) with special reference to the inheritance of chondrodystrophy / by Ernst Trier Mørch.

Frank Uffner's marvellous midgets : the only midgets, the world's wonders! : Piccadilly Hall, opposite St. James's Church, Piccadilly : commencing Monday, Nov 22nd ...

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Minnie Warren's quadrille (sister of Mrs. Tom Thumb) / by Stephen Glover. Performed daily at Commodore Nutt's grand levée.

The long and the short of it : Nepalese aged 72 reaches the heights as the world's shortest ever man.

Two dwarfs: "Tom Thumb" (Charles Sherwood Stratton) (1838-1883) and his wife Lavinia Warren Stratton (1841-1919). Photograph, c. 1865.

Chondrodystrophic dwarfs in Denmark : (supplemented with investigations from Sweden and Norway) with special reference to the inheritance of chondrodystrophy / by Ernst Trier Mørch.

Frank Uffner's marvellous midgets : the only midgets, the world's wonders! : Piccadilly Hall, opposite St. James's Church, Piccadilly : commencing Monday, Nov 22nd ...