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Handbills

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  • [Handbill advertising The Edmonton twins: conjoined twins on exhibition at the Adelaide Gallery in the Lowther Arcade, London. The twins were born on 30 January 1855].
  • 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 ...
  • [Leaflet advertising appearances by "Two children united from the umbilical chord to the top of the breast bone", born January 1833 and being exhibited at The Rotunda, Blackfriars Road, London].
  • [Undated, illustrated (cutting? leaflet?) about bearded Annie Jones-Elliot, "The Esau Lady"].
  • Northern expedition : just arrived from Baffin's Bay, to be seen, at no. 183 Piccadilly (opposite Burlington House,) the only two esquimaux indians, (male and female), brought to England from the frozen regions of the North ...
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Catalogue

    • 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

    [Leaflet advertising appearances by the 6 month old John Baptist Dos Santos, born with 3 legs, 2 penises and 4 testicles in Portugal 1843 on display at no.56, Quadrant, Regent Street, London].

    | Date: [between 1843 and 1844?]
    • Ephemera
    • Online

    [Leaflet advertising an exhibition of the mummified corpse of Julia Pastrana at the Burlington Gallery, 191 Piccadilly, London (1862?)].

    | Date: 1862
    • Ephemera
    • Online

    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
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