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Dwarfs (Folklore)

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  • [Leaflet advertising appearances by Frank Uffner's latest collection of living curiosities at the Piccadilly Hall, London, featuring General Tiny Mite and Chang, the great Chinese giant (24 February 1883?). ].
  • This is to give notice, to all gentlemen, ladies, and others, that there is arriv'd at this place a little wild man, born in St. David's Streights, aged 27 years : he is 34 inches high, streight, very well proportioned ...
  • Grand extra night! : Wednesday, December 8th, 1875 ... / Gatti's Palace of Varieties, Westminster Bridge Road.
  • [Leaflet advertising appearances by Frank Uffner's American Midgets: Lucia Zarate and General Mite at the Piccadilly Hall, London. Printed on green paper].
  • A small reward.
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    Grand extra night! : Wednesday, December 8th, 1875 ... / Gatti's Palace of Varieties, Westminster Bridge Road.

    | Date: 1875
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    This is to give notice, to all gentlemen, ladies, and others, that there is arriv'd at this place a little wild man, born in St. David's Streights, aged 27 years : he is 34 inches high, streight, very well proportioned ...

    | Date: [1979]
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    Les nains et les elfes au Moyen Age / Claude Lecouteux ; préface de Régis Boyer.

    Lecouteux, Claude. | Date: [1988], ©1988
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    A small reward.

    | Date: 2010
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    Challenge to the American dwarf, General Tom Thumb : the English dwarf, Field Marshal Tom Thumb, now exhibiting daily, at the Egyptian Hall, Piccadilly ... to appear and perform with him in public, so that their respective admirers may judge of their comparative merits ...

    | Date: [1846]
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