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Ephemera
Online
[Undated handbill (1848?) noting the exhibition of Joachim Eleizegui, The Spanish Giant, at the Cosmorama Rooms, Regent Street, London].
Date: 1848
Ephemera
Online
[Newspaper cutting, "Easily rattled" featuring a cartoon of a man talking to a Living Skeleton. ].
Date: date of publication not identified
Ephemera
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[Newspaper cutting (1871? The Times?) about an appearance of Christina and Millie McCoy, 'The African Twins' or Two-Headed Nightingale (with Anna Swan, the Nova Scotian Giantess and Captain Bates, a Kentucky Giant). They were conjoined twin girls, born in North Carolina in 1851. Their mother was a slave].
Date: 1871
Ephemera
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Handbill (Sept. 1856) advertising the exhibition of an Algerian youth (13 years old) with 2 faces at the Prince of Wales Bazaar, Regent Street, London.
Date: date of publication not identified
Ephemera
Online
[Undated handbill advertising "the Aïssaouas' snake and scorpion eaters" ].
Date: date of publication not identified
Ephemera
Online
[Handbill advertising appearances from Chang, the great Chinese Giant, and chung Mow, the tartar rebel dwarf, at the Egyptian Hall (Piccadilly, London)].
Date: 1865
Ephemera
Online
[Undated handbill (October 1898) advertising an exhibition of The Australian Juvenile Giant Family, Clara, Hercules Tom and Anna Snell].
Date: date of publication not identified
Ephemera
Online
[Undated handbill (after 1876) for a 3 night variety show featuring Capt. Austin (mimic and ventriloquist) and Amy Dot, the Fairy Queen].
Date: date of publication not identified
Ephemera
Online
[Undated handbill (1886) advertising an appearance by a giant (3 feet tall), 1 year old baby at the Albert Palace, Battersea, London ("Every one should see the giant baby")].
Date: 1886
Ephemera
Online
[Undated newspaper cutting (March 1869) advertising The Nova Scotia Giantess, Anna Swan, the Siamese twins and the Circassian Lady at the Egyptian Hall, Piccadilly, London].
Date: 1869
Ephemera
Online
[Newspaper cutting (October 1887?) "Bow Street : a giant in trouble" about 7' 5" James Patrick Folly's arrest and trial for drunken assault on a police officer in Tottenham Court Road].
Date: 1887
Ephemera
Online
[Undated handbill (printed in Piccadilly by Percival) advertising an exhibition of a 7' 2" Lapland Giantess and her companion at Saville House, Leicester Square, London].
Date: date of publication not identified
Ephemera
Online
[Undated mottled blue-grey handbill (London, December 1884?) advertising an appearance by Harvey's Midges: Princess Lottie, Prince Midge, Miss Jennie Worgen, General Tot and Mlle. Lottie Adelina de Lara, child pianist, at the Piccadilly Hall, London].
Date: 1884
Ephemera
Online
[Undated handbill (June 1894?) advertising Madame Howard, the African lion-faced lady at 199 Borough, London. She appears to have been a black woman with a beard].
Date: 1894
Ephemera
Online
[Undated white handbill (London, December 1884?) advertising an appearance by Harvey's Midges: Princess Lottie, Prince Midge, Miss Jennie Worgen, General Tot and Mlle. Lottie Adelina de Lara, child pianist, at the Piccadilly Hall, London].
Date: 1884
Ephemera
Online
[Handbill advertising Wieland's Living Wonders at the Royal Aquarium in London].
Date: 1898
Ephemera
Online
[Illustrated handbill advertising an appearance of Christina and Millie McCoy, 'The African Twins' (or Two-Headed Nightingale) at the Egyptian Hall, Piccadilly, London on 17 September 1855 (in lighter type). They were conjoined twin girls, born in North Carolina in 1851. Their mother was a slave].
Date: 1855
Ephemera
Online
[Undated handbill (London, 1837?) advertising an appearance by Matthias Gullia, the man in miniature, 2 feet 10 inches, at Cosmorama, 209 Regent Street, London].
Date: 1837
Ephemera
Online
[Undated handbill advertising an appearance at Davidge's Royal Surrey Theatre (Lambeth, London) by the German Lilliputian Family and General Tom Thumb].
Date: date of publication not identified
Ephemera
Online
[Small, undated handbill printed in red on yellow paper advertising Japanese Tommy at St. James's Hall, Piccadilly, London].
Date: date of publication not identified
Ephemera
Online
[Newspaper cutting (1887?) "An Irish giant in court" about 7' 5" James Patrick Folly's arrest and trial for drunken assault on a police officer in Tottenham Court Road].
Date: 1887
Ephemera
Online
[Copy of a broadside printed by R. Weston of Biddenden, Kent, giving a brief history of the Siamese twins Elisabeth and Mary Chulkhurst, the 'Biddenden maids'. ].
Date: date of publication not identified
Ephemera
Online
[Undated handbill (1885?) advertising an appearance by the Sisters Holland, "together weighing nearly half-a-ton. Printed in Leicester. ].
Date: 1885
Ephemera
Online
[Undated Victorian handbill advertising Mrs. E. Farmer, of Wantage, Berkshire, "the largest woman in existence" weighing 24 stone, on exhibition at 194 The Strand, London].
Date: date of publication not identified
Ephemera
Online
[Undated handbill (June 1886?) advertising an exhibition of "King Theebaw's Burmese sacred family". "Piccadilly Hall" has been overprinted with "Royal Aquarium"].
Date: 1886