Condition affecting a person or animal short in stature, caused by slow or delayed growth

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Royal Court Midgets.

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

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

Horns Assembly Rooms, Kennington : for one day only... Admiral Tom Trump will hold receptions at the above rooms on Monday next, Oct. 11.

Glässner's Liliputaner.

Hank, world's tallest bartender, 7 ft 8 inches : Terry, world's shortest bartender, 4ft 11 inches : see us at Bradley's 5 and 10, longest bar in the world : Fillmore Street, between Geary & Post, San Francisco.

Children with orthopedic disorders. Twenty six pen drawings.

The Zeynard's Liliput-Speciality Troupe : [evening dress].

Van Albert : der gröbte Mann, 24 Jahre alt : Seppetoni, der kleinste Mann, 29 Jahre alt.

Zena, age 32 years.

Queen of the Liliputians : height 31 inches, age 26.

Oversize ephemera. EPH+33.

M0012306: Ancient Peruvian pots showing various medical conditions

Extract of a letter from John Browning Esq., of Barton-Hill near Bristol, to Mr Henry Baker, F.R.S., concerning a dwarf.

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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Dwarfism

Images from the collections

Images referencing Dwarfism

Works from the collections

Oversize ephemera. EPH+33.

M0012306: Ancient Peruvian pots showing various medical conditions

Extract of a letter from John Browning Esq., of Barton-Hill near Bristol, to Mr Henry Baker, F.R.S., concerning a dwarf.

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.

Dwarfism

Images from the collections

Images referencing Dwarfism

Works from the collections

Oversize ephemera. EPH+33.

M0012306: Ancient Peruvian pots showing various medical conditions

Extract of a letter from John Browning Esq., of Barton-Hill near Bristol, to Mr Henry Baker, F.R.S., concerning a dwarf.

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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