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Piccadilly (London, England)

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  • Northern expedition : just arrived from Baffin's Bay, to be seen, at no. 183 Piccadilly (opposite Burlington House,) the only two esquimaux indians, (male and female), brought to England from the frozen regions of the North ...
  • General Tom Thumb : the celebrated American dwarf : exhibiting every day and evening, Egyptian Hall, Piccadilly.
  • [Leaflet advertising appearances by Miss Honeywell, an American lady born without hands, at 32 Piccadilly, London (1811?)].
  • [Folded leaflet (turquoise paper - copies on purple paper exist) advertising appearances of 'The Pygopagi Twins', Josepha and Rosalie Blazek, conjoined twins, in some sort of performance at the Egyptian Hall, Piccadilly, London, in late 1880. The "Bohemian" twins were under the patronage of the Empress of Austria and Queen of Hungary, Crown Prince Rudolf of Austria and other distinguished personages. The twins both died at the age of 45. ].
  • For a short time only, commencing Monday, July 17th  : the wonderful Two-Headed Nightingale Company ... also Miss Anna Swan the famous Nova-Scotian Giantess ... Capt. M. V. Bates the great Kentucky Giant.
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Catalogue

    • Ephemera
    • Online

    Frank Uffner's marvellous midgets : the only midgets, the world's wonders! : Piccadilly Hall, opposite St. James's Church, Piccadilly : commencing Monday, Nov 22nd ...

    | Date: [1880]
    • Ephemera
    • Online

    Last three weeks of the Zulu Kafirs, in London ... / St. George's Gallery, Hyde Park Corner, Piccadilly, formerly the Chinese Museum (including both galleries).

    | Date: [between 1880 and 1900?]
    • Ephemera
    • Online

    [Folded leaflet (purple paper - copies on turquoise paper exist) advertising appearances of 'The Pygopagi Twins', Josepha and Rosalie Blazek, conjoined twins, in some sort of performance at the Egyptian Hall, Piccadilly, London, in late 1880. The "Bohemian" twins were under the patronage of the Empress of Austria and Queen of Hungary, Crown Prince Rudolf of Austria and other distinguished personages. The twins both died at the age of 45. ].

    | Date: 1880
    • Ephemera
    • Online

    Tootsie and the giant.

    | Date: 1887
    • Ephemera
    • Online

    222, Piccadilly : just arrived from Paris, an immense French giant, who has excited the greatest astonishment in that capital : measures seven feet four inches ...

    | Date: [1826?]
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