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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 tallest man in the world : Herr Winkelmeier, the celebrated Austrian giant, exclusively engaged at the London Pavilion.

S. Watson's Grand American Museum 28, Oxford Street : Living curiosities! From all parts of the world ...

Enthusiastic reception of Barnum's great and renowned Boston Prize Ladies who have been specially engaged to complete a tour of Great Britain at an enormous outlay : Miss Minnie & Rhoda Holland.

[Illustrated ticket to an exhibition of Aztec Lilliputians from Iximaya in central America and the Earthmen or Erdmanniges from under the earth in South Africa. Possibly 1855. Printed in red on white paper].

Gruss von Hede.

Royal Court Midgets.

General Tom Thumb and wife : in the identical costumes worn before her majesty, Queen Victoria, at Windsor Castle, June 24, 1865.

[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. ].

M0015550: Show bill for "The Great Irish Giant and his wife, the renowned German Giantess"

Die dickste Eiche und Deutschlands dicksten Mann, seht euch in Ostseebad Kellenhusen an : Fünfhundert Pfund und mehr ist Meister Feig schwer.

Harold Pyott : the English midget ; aged 34 years, height 23 inches, weight 24 lbs.

Oversize ephemera. EPH+33.

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

On exhibition at Sedgwick's Exhibition : the Norfolk Giant :  the largest youth in the world... standing nearly 8 feet in height.

Royal Aquarium : Adonis, the African midgit on view with Wielands Realities.

Peter and Paul : the smallest men on Earth : John Lester's Midgets, Midget Town, the Tower, Blackpool.

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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].

On exhibition at Sedgwick's Exhibition : the Norfolk Giant : the largest youth in the world... standing nearly 8 feet in height.

Royal Aquarium : Adonis, the African midgit on view with Wielands Realities.

Peter and Paul : the smallest men on Earth : John Lester's Midgets, Midget Town, the Tower, Blackpool.

Freak shows

Images from the collections

Images referencing Freak shows

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].

On exhibition at Sedgwick's Exhibition : the Norfolk Giant : the largest youth in the world... standing nearly 8 feet in height.

Royal Aquarium : Adonis, the African midgit on view with Wielands Realities.

Peter and Paul : the smallest men on Earth : John Lester's Midgets, Midget Town, the Tower, Blackpool.

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