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Oversize ephemera. EPH+33.
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[Undated handbill (1848?) noting the exhibition of Joachim Eleizegui, The Spanish Giant, at the Cosmorama Rooms, Regent Street, London].
Date: 1848
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[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].
Date: [between 1843 and 1844?]
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[Leaflet advertising an exhibition of the mummified corpse of Julia Pastrana at the Burlington Gallery, 191 Piccadilly, London (1862?)].
Date: 1862
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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.
Date: date of publication not identified
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The eighth wonder!! : the celebrated Miss Beffin, miniature painter, will exhibit her wondrous powers, in a commodious booth, during this present fair : a young lady who was born deficient of arms, hands and legs ...
Date: [1809?]
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[Undated handbill advertising "the Aïssaouas' snake and scorpion eaters" ].
Date: date of publication not identified
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[Handbill advertising appearances from Chang, the great Chinese Giant, and chung Mow, the tartar rebel dwarf, at the Egyptian Hall (Piccadilly, London)].
Date: 1865
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Wonderful production of nature : the greatest human curiosity! Now in existence, Master Thomas Jones, the Cambrian Porcupine Youth!! ... is now exhibiting, for a short time, at the Cosmorama Rooms, 209 Regent Street.
Date: [1841]
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[Undated handbill (October 1898) advertising an exhibition of The Australian Juvenile Giant Family, Clara, Hercules Tom and Anna Snell].
Date: date of publication not identified
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[Undated handbill (after 1876) for a 3 night variety show featuring Capt. Austin (mimic and ventriloquist) and Amy Dot, the Fairy Queen].
Date: date of publication not identified
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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!.
Date: [1850]
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[Undated handbill (1886) advertising an appearance by a giant (3 feet tall), 1 year old baby at the Albert Palace, Battersea, London ("Every one should see the giant baby")].
Date: 1886
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[Small leaflet advertising appearances by General and Lady Mite, "open to spar all comers"].
Date: 1889
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[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
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[Small leaflet advertising appearances by Roberts's Greatest Phenomenon of the Age (late of the Crystal Palace), a "young lady born without arms", at The Horn of Plenty, Whitecross Street [London?]].
Date: [between 1860 and 1880?]
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251, Regent-St. nearly opposite the Argyll Rooms : to be seen daily, the beautiful Giraffe Spotted Girl ... Miss Fabian is most curiously spotted, equal to the giraffe ...
Date: [1830?]
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[Leaflet advertising appearances by Herr Unthan, "the armless wonder" at theSouth London Palace, 15 April (1889?). Printed on pink paper].
Date: [1889?]
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[Leaflet advertising the exhibition of The Petrified Man from Tucapel, Chile, in the Trance Room of the Royal Aquarium, London].
Date: [between 1880 and 1899?]
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Daily from 10 to 7, will be exhibited at the Cosmorama Rooms 209, Regent Street the smallest horse in the world ...
Date: [Between 1820 and 1850?]
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Body Positive presents Postive Theatre in Objects of affection ... : Lilian Baylis Theatre ... Sadler's Wells.
Date: 1990
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Pleasing phenomenon : a nyctalopess, from Witham in Essex at Brooke's Menagerie, no. 242, Piccadilly ...
Date: [1815?]- Ephemera
Freak shows ephemera. Box 3.
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A notice advertising himself by Matthias Buchinger, a phocomelic man. Etching, 1837, in facsimile of a printed notice, 1716.
Buchinger, Matthias, 1674-approximately 1732.Date: 1837Reference: 201i
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[Leaflet (27 December 1872?) advertising an appearance of "the gigantic mother and daughter" of Queen's County, Ireland. Ann O'Neill is the daughter (also known as Ann O'Neal in other publications) at Whiteley's Unrivalled Exhibition of Living Wonders (15 Tichborne Street, Haymarket, London). "Gigantic" appears to mean very fat. Also appearing is Mr. Jackson, the "smallest man in the world"].
Date: [between 1870 and 1873?]