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Julia Pastrana

Mexican side show performer

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Images featuring Julia Pastrana

6 images from works
  • [Leaflet advertising exhibition of the curious history of Julia Pastrana, "The Baboon Lady" and the live two-in-one, or, double-bodied boy at Dr. Kahn's Museum. The boy is shown in the illustration. Julia Pastrana was also giving 'levees' at the Regent Gallery 3 times a day].
  • [Leaflet advertising exhibition of the curious history of Julia Pastrana, "The Baboon Lady" and the live two-in-one, or, double-bodied boy at Dr. Kahn's Museum. The boy is shown in the illustration. Julia Pastrana was also giving 'levees' at the Regent Gallery 3 times a day].
  • Grand & novel attraction : Miss Julia Pastrana, the nondescript : from the United States and Canada / Regent Gallery, 69, & 71, Quadrant, Regent Street.
  • [Leaflet advertising an exhibition of the mummified corpse of Julia Pastrana at the Burlington Gallery, 191 Piccadilly, London (1862?)].
  • Miss Julia Pastrana, the embalmed nondescript : exhibiting at 191, Piccadilly.
  • Miss Julia Pastrana, the embalmed nondescript : exhibiting at 191, Piccadilly.

Works from the collections

7 works

    • Ephemera

    Oversize ephemera. EPH+33.

    • Ephemera
    • Online

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

    | Date: 1862
    • Books

    The eye of the beholder : Julia Pastrana's long journey home / edited by Laura Anderson Barbata and Donnna Wingate.

    | Date: [2017]
    • Ephemera
    • Online

    Grand & novel attraction : Miss Julia Pastrana, the nondescript : from the United States and Canada / Regent Gallery, 69, & 71, Quadrant, Regent Street.

    | Date: [1857?]
    • Ephemera
    • Online

    [Leaflet advertising exhibition of the curious history of Julia Pastrana, "The Baboon Lady" and the live two-in-one, or, double-bodied boy at Dr. Kahn's Museum. The boy is shown in the illustration. Julia Pastrana was also giving 'levees' at the Regent Gallery 3 times a day].

    | Date: [1857?]

Related topics

Freak shows
Congenital, Hereditary, and Neonatal Diseases and Abnormalities
Hypertrichosis

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