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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 ...

A breast pump manufactured by H. Wright. Wood engraving and letterpress, 18--.

[Leaflet advertising the "midgets' return to London":  General Mite, his father, E.F. Flynn and Miss Millie Edwards at the Imperial Theatre, adjoining the Royal Aquarium, London (1882?). It has a cartoon of General Mite being arrested by two policemen].

[Undated, illustrated handbill (February 1867?) advertising an appearance at Westminster Hall by Robert Tipney, Mr. Chipperfield's Living Skeleton, 26 years old and weighing 49 pounds. ].

[Undated handbill advertising George Conquest as 'Harlequin, the Yellow Dwarf', a grand Christmas pantomime at Alexandra Palace, London].

[Leaflet advertising appearances by Senorita Anita (The Tiger Lady) and her brother, Robinson (The Bear Boy) at the Royal Aquarium, London (20 February 1886?)].

How to get help after air raid damage.

Anatomie vivante, or, the Living Skeleton.

Oversize ephemera. EPH+33.

[Undated handbill (1848?) noting the exhibition of Joachim Eleizegui, The Spanish Giant, at the Cosmorama Rooms, Regent Street, London].

[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].

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

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.

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Handbills

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Oversize ephemera. EPH+33.

[Undated handbill (1848?) noting the exhibition of Joachim Eleizegui, The Spanish Giant, at the Cosmorama Rooms, Regent Street, London].

[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].

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

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.

Handbills

Images from the collections

Images of Handbills

Works from the collections

Oversize ephemera. EPH+33.

[Undated handbill (1848?) noting the exhibition of Joachim Eleizegui, The Spanish Giant, at the Cosmorama Rooms, Regent Street, London].

[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].

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

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.

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