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Giants and dwarfs.
Wood, Edward J.Date: 1868
Books
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The true effigies of the German giant : now to be seen at the Swan near Charing-Cross, whose stature is nine foot and a half in height, and the span of his hand a cubit compleat. He goes from place to place with his wife, who is but of an ordinary stature, and takes money for the show of her husband.
Date: 1660
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[Newspaper cutting (October 1887?) "Bow Street : a giant in trouble - James Patrick Tolly" about 7' 5" James Patrick Folly's arrest and trial for drunken assault on a police officer in Tottenham Court Road].
Date: 1887
Ephemera
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[Handbill advertising the exhibition of J.J. Brice].
Date: Date of publication not identified
Pictures
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Maximilian Christopher Miller, a giant, aged 59. Engraving by R. Graves.
Reference: 905i
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Études biologiques sur les géants / par P.-E. Launois et Pierre Roy ; introduction par m. le Professeur Brissaud.
Pierre-Émile LaunoisDate: 1904
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Relief of Jeffery Hudson, a dwarf, and Walter Parsons, a giant. Etching.
Reference: 2281i
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Handbill advertising Wieland's Living Wonders at the Royal Aquarium in London.
Date: date of publication not identified
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[Leaflet with the speeches of Chang Woo Gow and Chung Mow as delievered at the Egyyptian Hall, London, on Monday 25 September 1865].
Date: 1865
Pictures
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William Bradley, a giant. Engraving by S. Freeman, 1811, after T. Peat.
Peat, ThomasDate: 8 May 1811Reference: 180i
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Monday, May 4th, and until further notice : dive for life ... The Irish Giant, Captain Murphy, standing nearly 8ft. high, Lobster Claw Lady ... tattooing ... / Wonderland, Whitechapel Road (next St. Mary's station).
Date: [1896?]
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A strange and true relation of several wonderful and miraculous sights seen in the air in February last, and this present March 1661 : A clear sun shining in the east at midnight, with several rayes or beams, upon each of which hung the skeliton of a dead man, link'd together with serpents, and many Turkes and Greek and Hebrew letters ... Also three ships appeared at noon-day sailing on dry land, as on the water out of which came men with swords and spades, and armed soldiers, hacking and hewing as they went ... Likewise a great storm of haile blood-red, being so hard that puting it into the fire it could not be melted, but so soon as put in the water it turned it to blood. ... A woman appeared three several daies crying, repent, repent, the last day is at the dore. And a child in a white shirt appeared early in the morning to a watchman commanding him to say, beloved Christians the last day is not far off. This is confirmed by two posts and several gentlemen of quality. Likewise a true and exact description of a monstrous gyant lately discovered in Darbyshire ... shown to many persons of quality in and about the City.
Date: 1661
Ephemera
Oversize ephemera. EPH+35.
Ephemera
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[Page 466 of the 25 February 1893 issue of 'The Million' with an article on Elizabeth Lyska, a Russian giantess over 7 feet tall, exhibiting at The Royal Aquarium, Westminster with dwarf, Princess Topaze, 26" tall].
Date: 1893
Ephemera
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The Russian giant Machnow at the London Hippodrome : arrival.
Date: [1905]
Pictures
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Patrick O'Brien, a giant. Etching by A. van Assen, 1804, after J. Parry.
Joseph ParryDate: 20 June 1804Reference: 916i
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[Undated handbill (1865/6?) advertising a levee with Chang, the Fychow giant and Chung Mow, the tartar dwarf, at the Egyyptian Hall, London].
Date: date of publication not identified
Ephemera
Freak shows ephemera. Box 5.
Pictures
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Relief of Jeffery Hudson, a dwarf, Walter Parsons, a giant, and another subject. Line engraving by T. Barber after T.H. Shepherd.
Thomas Hosmer ShepherdReference: 2282i
Books
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The Strange vvonder of the world, Or the great gyant described : With the monsterousness of his stature, his conditions, the place where, and the manner how he was taken. As also, his residence in Portsmouth Road, in an East Indy merchants ship, called the Nonsuch; with the great preparations making for his bringing up to London; and what is intended to be done with him there.
Date: 1653
Ephemera
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Giant Amazon Queen : Babil and Bijou : Alhambra.
Date: [1882]
Ephemera
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S. Watson's Grand American Museum, 28 Oxford Street : Living curiosities from all parts of the world : Captain Alexander, the giant of giants... [etc.].
Date: [1885]
Ephemera
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[Leaflet advertising appearances by Captain Ureck, the Hungarian giant vocalist and a bill of many others at the Royal Theatre (Late Weston's) on Holborn, London].
Date: 1883
Ephemera
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Henri Cot, the French giant and Prince Colibri, the midget.
Date: [between 1910 and 1919?]
Ephemera
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[Single sheet programme (March 1887) for a variety programme featuring Herr Winkelmeier at the London Pavilion].
Date: 1887