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Images from the collections

Images of Clippings

311 images from works
  • A sovereign remedy.
  • [Newspaper cutting, "Giants" (1842?) about the possibility of an ancient race of giants].
  • [Cutting from The London Journal (1853?) titled: 'The earthmen in Southern Africa'. ].
  • Extraordinary natural curiosity : a living skeleton.
  • [Cutting from the Britsh medical journal: "A lecture on the psychology of conjoined twins: a study of monsterhood". Daisy and Violet Hilton are shown].
  • Secrets of good health. XII, The white man's burden : effectual exercises / by Sir W. Arbuthnot Lane, Bart., C.B.
  • CICFA : cures indigestion constipation flatulence acidity.
  • [Newspaper cutting (1887?) "An Irish giant in court" about 7' 5" James Patrick Folly's arrest and trial for drunken assault on a police officer in Tottenham Court Road].
  • Royal Institution of Great Britain, Albemarle-street, August 30, 1841 : the extended and practical course of chemical lectures and demonstrations for medical and general students, delivered in the laboratory of this institution by professor Brande and E. Solly, jun., esq., will commence on Tuesday, the 5th of October at nine in the morning... / Joseph Fincher.
  • [Newspaper clipping (from the Illustrated Times, 3 October 1868) about 'Dr. Nelaton and the Siamese Twins' Chang and Eng].
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Works from the collections

312 works

    • Ephemera

    On hearing the bells chime for a funeral, very late at night / W.L.

    | Date: [1760?]
    • Ephemera
    • Online

    The long and the short of it : Nepalese aged 72 reaches the heights as the world's shortest ever man.

    | Date: 2012
    • Ephemera
    • Online

    Hôpital militaire français des Grands-Champs, à Constantinople.

    | Date: [1854?]
    • Ephemera

    [Press cuttings about Jewish people] : 1753-1771.

    | Date: 1753-1771
    • Ephemera

    Oversize ephemera. EPH+33.

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Related topics

Congenital, Hereditary, and Neonatal Diseases and Abnormalities
London
Pharmaceutical Preparations
Giants (Folklore)
Drug Industry
Dwarfs (Persons)
History, 18th Century
Twins, Conjoined
Freak shows
Hairdressing

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