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Images about Albinism

9 images from works
  • S. Watson's Grand American Museum 28, Oxford Street : Living curiosities! From all parts of the world ...
  • S. Watson's Grand American Museum, 28 Oxford Street : Living curiosities from all parts of the world : Captain Alexander, the giant of giants... [etc.].
  • Two plants (Pisonia sylvestris and Pisonia alba ): flowering and leafy shoots with separate numbered flower and fruit sections. Chromolithograph by P. Depannemaeker, c.1885, after B. Hoola van Nooten.
  • S. Watson's Grand American Museum, 28 Oxford Street : Living curiosities from all parts of the world : Captain Alexander, the giant of giants... [etc.].
  • To be seen at the Black Peruke, facing the mews, Charing-Cross ... : White negress : account of white negroes.
  • Last week of the extraordinary and wonderful Albino Family : white negroes, or moors, from Madagascar, consisting of a husband, wife and child ... : What can they be? ... What is it? ... More wonderful curiosities! The original Siamese twins Chan and Eng ... / P.T. Barnum.
  • Wonderful phenomen of nature : just arrived, and to be seen every day at the Lyceum, Strand, the three wonders of the age!!! : Miss Crawley, the beautiful albiness, and her two brothers.
  • S. Watson's Grand American Museum 28, Oxford Street : Living curiosities! From all parts of the world ...
  • Last week of the extraordinary and wonderful Albino Family : white negroes, or moors, from Madagascar, consisting of a husband, wife and child ... : What can they be? ... What is it? ... More wonderful curiosities! The original Siamese twins Chan and Eng ... / P.T. Barnum.

Works from the collections

19 works

    • Books

    L'esprit créateur. Vol. 52, no. 2, Genetics and French culture / editors: Louise Lyle and Douglas Morrey.

    | Date: 2012
    • Books

    Kakerlaken - Rasse oder Kranke? : die Diskussion des Albinismus in der Anthropologie der zweiten Hälfte des 18. Jahrhunderts / Michael Kutzer.

    Kutzer, Michael. | Date: 1990
    • Ephemera

    Oversize ephemera. EPH+35.

    • Ephemera
    • Online

    S. Watson's Grand American Museum, 28 Oxford Street : Living curiosities from all parts of the world : Captain Alexander, the giant of giants... [etc.].

    | Date: [1885]
    • Books

    La natura e il corpo : studi in memoria di Attilio Zanca : atti del convegno, Mantova, 17 maggio 2003 / a cura di Giuseppe Olmi, Giuseppe Papagno.

    | Date: 2006
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Ectromelia
People with albinism
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