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  • Mr. Bernard Cavanagh, the Fasting Man ... will receive company at his rooms, 263, Strand ... : His first long fast commenced at the death of his mother, which took place nearly six years ago, since that period he has not tasted any food whatever ...
  • [Leaflet advertising appearances by Frank Uffner's American Midgets: Lucia Zarate and General Mite at the Piccadilly Hall, London. Printed on white paper].
  • [Leaflet advertising appearances by Frank Uffner's American Midgets: Lucia Zarate and General Mite at the Piccadilly Hall, London. Printed on yellow paper].
  • [Handbill (20 December 1886) for a variety show at the Canterbury Theatre of Varieties (Westminster Bridge Road, London, England) featuring the 8 foot tall Belgian giant Alfredo Devartos as well as Testo (strong man) and Onri].
  • Ne plus ultra!! : now exhibiting : the Spanish Goliah, the celebrated Senor Joachim Eleizegui, from the Basque provinces of Spain ; twenty-three years of age - stands 7 feet 10 in. weighs 450 pounds!.
  • [Leaflet about The Brothers Tocci, conjoined twins, born in Locana, Italy in 1877].
  • [Folded handbill on yellow paper advertising Millie Christine, the Two-Headed Nightingale, and Harvey's Midges (smallest people in the world : Princess Lottie, Prince Midge, Miss Jennie Worgen and General Tot), appearing at the Piccadilly Hall, London, 17 February 1885].
  • [Leaflet (1827?) advertising appearances by "Two Chinese ladies" in elaborate national costume, singing and playing traditional Chinese instruments in the Grand Saloon at 94 Pall Mall, London].
  • Daily from 10 to 7, will be exhibited at the Cosmorama Rooms 209, Regent Street the smallest horse in the world ...
  • [Small leaflet advertising appearances by General and Lady Mite, "open to spar all comers"].
  • [Undated handbill (August 1880?) advertising appearances at the Royal Aquarium, London by Chang, the vast Mongolian, accompanied by Henrik Brustad, the huge Norwegian, the Chinese Tom Thumb, the midget Adonis, the Anakites (giants) and midgets. Printed on off-white paper].
  • [Leaflet advertising an appearance by a New Zealand chief at the Tivoli Gardens in Margate. V.R. (Victoria Regina) with a coat of arms is at the head of the woodcut by B. Burns].
  • Giant Amazon Queen : Babil and Bijou : Alhambra.
  • [Undated handbill (1874) for an exhibition of Andree & Son, or the Kostroma people : "Two human beings with dogs' heads" at the South London Palace. Printed on white paper].
  • [Undated handbill advertising "the Aïssaouas' snake and scorpion eaters" ].
  • [Leaflet advertising the "midgets' return to London": General Mite, his father, E.F. Flynn and Miss Millie Edwards at the Imperial Theatre, adjoining the Royal Aquarium, London (1882?). It has a cartoon of General Mite being arrested by two policemen].
  • [Undated handbill (1835?) advertising 'L'anatomie vivante, or Living Skeleton" at the York Hotel, William Square (Liverpool?)].
  • [Leaflet advertising appearances by Frank Uffner's American Midgets: Lucia Zarate and General Mite at the Piccadilly Hall, London. Printed on white paper].
  • [Leaflet advertising appearances by the 6 month old John Baptist Dos Santos, born with 3 legs, 2 penises and 4 testicles in Portugal 1843 on display at no.56, Quadrant, Regent Street, London].
  • [Leaflet (1880?) advertising appearances by The Lilliputian Monarchs: the Australian General Tom Thumb and Commodore Knott at the Horns Assembly Rooms (Kennington, London, England). Printed on pale green paper].
  • Egyptian Hall, Piccadilly : farewell levees of Genl Tom Thumb : previous to his final departure for America : positively for a short time only. Every day and evening.
  • Eagle tavern, City Road : Easter Monday, and during the week, to be seen alive, the beautiful Giraffe Girl, with a fine cosmoramic view of the Thames Tunnel. Admittance sixpence only.
  • [Undated handbill (November 1885?) advertising an appearance at the Albert Palace, London by "little people" Commodore Foote (CHarles Nestel) and his sister Eliza (the Fairy Queen)].
  • 222, Piccadilly : just arrived from Paris, an immense French giant, who has excited the greatest astonishment in that capital : measures seven feet four inches ...
  • Wonderful phenomenon! : Mattias Gullia, surnamed the man in miniature, aged 22 years and 6 months, two feet ten inches high ...
  • Handbill (Sept. 1856) advertising the exhibition of an Algerian youth (13 years old) with 2 faces at the Prince of Wales Bazaar, Regent Street, London.
  • Hopkin Hopkins : the wonderful and surpising little Welchman.
  • [Leaflet advertising appearances by 16 month old "plus beau phénomène du 19e siècle" with no arms and one leg at the Foire Au Pain D'Épice in Paris, 17 April 1881. The child was born in Ghent in Belgium].
  • [Leaflet with a poem about General Mite and Millie Edwards : 'Midgets at home', advertising the Royal American Midgets: General Mite, his father, E.F. Flynn and Miss Millie Edwards at the Piccadilly Hall, London (December 1882)].
  • [Leaflet advertising appearances by Uffner's Royal American Midgets: General Mite and Lucia Zarate at the Piccadilly Hall, London. Shows the General standing on a table covered by a cloth].