Images from the collections
![[Newspaper cutting, "Giants" (1842?) about the possibility of an ancient race of giants].](https://iiif.wellcomecollection.org/image/b28550456_EPH_499B_98_0001.jp2/full/160%2C/0/default.jpg)
![[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].](https://iiif.wellcomecollection.org/image/b28481343_EPH_499A_65_0001.jp2/full/282%2C/0/default.jpg)
![[Leaflet advertising appearances by Herr Winkelmeier and M. Brunin (French comedian) at the London Pavilion in March 1887].](https://iiif.wellcomecollection.org/image/b28550328_0001.jp2/full/282%2C/0/default.jpg)
Works from the collections
206 works
- Ephemera
Oversize ephemera. EPH+33.
- 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
On exhibition at Sedgwick's Exhibition : the Norfolk Giant : the largest youth in the world... standing nearly 8 feet in height.
Date: [1880?]
- Ephemera
- Online
A giant, Mr. Robert Hales, named "The Yorkshire Giant," who will exhibit in Nottingham next week, is nearly eight feet in height, and weighs 462 lb.
Date: [1848]
- Ephemera
- Online
Monday, October 8th, 1883 : special engagement of Captain Ureck, the Hungarian giant : the tallest man in the world / Raglan Music Hall, Charlotte St., Blackfriars, Star Music Hall, Abbey St., Bermondsey.
Date: 1883