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Pigmentation Disorders

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Images about Pigmentation Disorders

21 images from works
  • The beautiful spotted negro boy / Richardson's New Theatre.
  • Eagle tavern, City Road : Easter Monday, and during the week, to be seen alive, the beautiful Giraffe Girl, with a fine cosmoramic view of the Thames Tunnel. Admittance sixpence only.
  • [Undated handbill (December 1881) for the Royal Aquarium advertising Farini's (William Hunt) wonder of wonders, the tattooed Captain Georges Costentenus and the Leopard Boy].
  • The cabinet of curiosities, or wonders of the world displayed. No.5, The Spotted Negro Boy.
  • The cabinet of curiosities, or wonders of the world displayed. No.5, The Spotted Negro Boy.
  • Eagle tavern, City Road : Easter Monday, and during the week, to be seen alive, the beautiful Giraffe Girl, with a fine cosmoramic view of the Thames Tunnel. Admittance sixpence only.
  • [Undated handbill (December 1881) for the Royal Aquarium advertising Farini's (William Hunt) wonder of wonders, the tattooed Captain Georges Costentenus and the Leopard Boy].
  • [Newspaper cutting titled: New wonders at the Royal Aquarium (November 1881?) in Mr. Farini's (William Hunt) Gallery. These are Captain Georges Costentenus and the Leopard Boy].
  • On Wednesday morning last died, at the house of Mr. Richardson, Horsemonger-lane, Southwark, aged four year and nine months, George Alexander, the late celebrated and surprising spotted West Indian ...
  • On Wednesday morning last died, at the house of Mr. Richardson, Horsemonger-lane, Southwark, aged four year and nine months, George Alexander, the late celebrated and surprising spotted West Indian ...
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Works from the collections

19 works

    • Ephemera
    • Online

    The cabinet of curiosities, or wonders of the world displayed. No.5, The Spotted Negro Boy.

    | Date: [between 1820 and 1860?]
    • Ephemera
    • Online

    251, Regent-St. nearly opposite the Argyll Rooms : to be seen daily, the beautiful Giraffe Spotted Girl ... Miss Fabian is most curiously spotted, equal to the giraffe ...

    | Date: [1830?]
    • Ephemera
    • Online

    15 Poultry : for a short time only: to be seen alive, the beautiful Giraffe Girl, with a fine cosmoramic view of the Thames Tunnel.

    | Date: [1830?]
    • Books

    Pigmented atrophy of the mucous membrane of the small intestine of malarial origin / by Leonard Rogers.

    Rogers, Leonard, 1868-1962. | Date: 1903
    • Ephemera
    • Online

    Wonderful spotted boy : seventeen months old from the Caribbee islands, in the West Indies : to be seen at no.41, Strand, near Messrs. Couts & Co. bankers : he is the progeny of negroes, on whose body is a display of the works of God, being beautifully covered by a diversity of spots of the most beautiful black and transparent brown and white.

    | Date: [1810?]
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Related topics

Congenital, Hereditary, and Neonatal Diseases and Abnormalities
London
Fabian, Miss, 1827-
Gratton, George Alexander, 1808-1813.
Vitiligo
Freak shows
Regent Street (London, England)

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