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Julianne Sleebus, a woman with a large beard. Process print, 190-.

Gruss von Hede.

Madamoiselle Lefort, a bearded woman. Stipple engraving, 1819.

Julia Pastrana, a bearded woman, embalmed. Wood engraving, 1862.

Johann Staininger, a man with a very long beard. Line engraving, 1814.

For twelve nights only, commencing Monday, Feb. 23, 1874 : South London Palace, London Road / proprietors, Speedy & Poole.

Madame Delait.

Old Parr, an elderly apothecary with an extremely long beard mixing a concoction with a pestle and mortar. Pen drawing by Matthews(?), 1861(?).

Barbara van Beck, a hirsute woman. Mezzotint.

Barbara van Beck. Oil painting, ca. 1650.

Oversize ephemera. EPH+33.

Shwe-Maong, a man in Burma whose head and face are covered with hair. Aquatint by J.H. Clark after W.E. Reid.

The hirsute Kostroma people from the primeval forests of central Russia : the first of their kind ever seen in England.

Anna Macallame, a bearded woman. Line engraving.

Androgens, virilization and the hirsute female / by Eugene J. Segre.

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Oversize ephemera. EPH+33.

Shwe-Maong, a man in Burma whose head and face are covered with hair. Aquatint by J.H. Clark after W.E. Reid.

The hirsute Kostroma people from the primeval forests of central Russia : the first of their kind ever seen in England.

Anna Macallame, a bearded woman. Line engraving.

Androgens, virilization and the hirsute female / by Eugene J. Segre.