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Ephemera
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Anatomie vivante, or, the Living Skeleton.
Date: [1825?]
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[Undated handbill (printed in Piccadilly by Percival) advertising an exhibition of a 7' 2" Lapland Giantess and her companion at Saville House, Leicester Square, London].
Date: date of publication not identified
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[Undated mottled blue-grey handbill (London, December 1884?) advertising an appearance by Harvey's Midges: Princess Lottie, Prince Midge, Miss Jennie Worgen, General Tot and Mlle. Lottie Adelina de Lara, child pianist, at the Piccadilly Hall, London].
Date: 1884
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[Undated handbill (June 1894?) advertising Madame Howard, the African lion-faced lady at 199 Borough, London. She appears to have been a black woman with a beard].
Date: 1894
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[Leaflet advertising appearances by The Royal American Midgets: General Mite, his father, E.F. Flynn and Miss Millie Edwards at the Piccadilly Hall, London (1884?). Printed on pink paper].
Date: [1894]
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[Undated white handbill (London, December 1884?) advertising an appearance by Harvey's Midges: Princess Lottie, Prince Midge, Miss Jennie Worgen, General Tot and Mlle. Lottie Adelina de Lara, child pianist, at the Piccadilly Hall, London].
Date: 1884
Ephemera
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15 Poultry : for a short time only: to be seen alive, the beautiful Giraffe Girl, with a fine cosmoramic view of the Thames Tunnel.
Date: [1830?]
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[Leaflet (1880s?) advertising appearances of "The male child without head, face or arms" at King John's Court, Shoreditch].
Date: [Between 1880 and 1889?]
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[Leaflet advertising bearded lady, Mlle. Melaque from Constantinople, appearing at the Champ de Foire (Paris)].
Date: 1882
Ephemera
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[Illustrated handbill advertising an appearance of Christina and Millie McCoy, 'The African Twins' (or Two-Headed Nightingale) at the Egyptian Hall, Piccadilly, London on 17 September 1855 (in lighter type). They were conjoined twin girls, born in North Carolina in 1851. Their mother was a slave].
Date: 1855
Ephemera
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[Undated handbill (London, 1837?) advertising an appearance by Matthias Gullia, the man in miniature, 2 feet 10 inches, at Cosmorama, 209 Regent Street, London].
Date: 1837
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[Leaflet advertising appearances by Senorita Anita (The Tiger Lady) and her brother, Robinson (The Bear Boy) at the Royal Aquarium, London (20 February 1886?)].
Date: 1886
Ephemera
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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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[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)].
Date: [1882]
Ephemera
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22, New Bond Street : Now exhibiting from ten in the morning till nine at night, an immense French giant : measures exactly 7 feet 4 inches ...
Date: [1826?]
Ephemera
Stockport Rifle Corps : those who have already entered into this Corps, and all others who are desirous of doing so, are requested to attend at the Unicorn Inn, in the Hillgate, on Monday the 26th of September inst., at three in the afternoon, in order to consider of, and form resolution for, the government of the Corps : 24th September, 1803.
Stockport Rifle Corps.Date: 1803
Ephemera
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[Leaflet advertising appearances by the 8' 2" Lewis Wilkins at the Canterbury Theatre of Varieties in London on Monday 21 January 1901].
Date: 1901
Ephemera
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[Undated handbill advertising an appearance at Davidge's Royal Surrey Theatre (Lambeth, London) by the German Lilliputian Family and General Tom Thumb].
Date: date of publication not identified
Ephemera
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The wonderful American hen, with three wings and four legs : the greatest living curiosity!!! in the world is now exhibiting at 26, Charing Cross ...
Date: [1842?]
Ephemera
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[Leaflet advertising an appearance of a real mermaid and merman (caught off Terra del Fuego). Location not disclosed but printed in Lambeth (Phoenix Printing Office)].
Date: 1887
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Mr. Smith's exhibition : to be seen twihin, the Norfolk Giant 17 years of age, 7 feet 2 inches high, and weighs 20 stone, also the African Lady! in her native costume ... also Tom Thumb, the celebrated dwarf, also the extraordinary wonder of the creation, the infant male child & its mother with 2 perfect heads and necks on one body ...
Date: [1849]
Ephemera
Online
[Leaflet (1863?) advertising a variety bill at the Criterion Hall of Amusement, Leicester Square, London with 7 foot tall Polish Giantess, Countess Lodoiska headline act].
Date: [1863?]
Ephemera
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[Small handbill advertising Millie Christine, the Two-Headed Nightingale, and Harvey's Midges (smallest people in the world), appearing at the Piccadilly Hall, London].
Date: 1885
Ephemera
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[Small, undated handbill printed in red on yellow paper advertising Japanese Tommy at St. James's Hall, Piccadilly, London].
Date: date of publication not identified
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Another Daniel Lambert! : now exhibiting at 6, Leicester Square, Mr. Mansfield, of Debden, Essex, the most wonderful man ever known ... weighing 469lbs.! Circumference, 97 inches!!!.
Date: [between 1810 and 1850?]