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Chang and Eng the Siamese twins, in an oriental setting. Lithograph, 1830.
Date: Jany [1830]Reference: 2615i
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The most strange and wounderfull apperation of blood in a poole at Garraton in Leicester-shire : which continued for the space of foure dayes, the rednesse of the colour for the space of those foure dayes every day increasing higher and higher, to the infinet amazement of many hundreds of beholders of all degrees and conditions, who have dipped their handketchers in this bloody poole, ... As also the true relation of a miraculous and prodigious birth in Shoo-lane, where one Mistris Browne a cuttlers wife was delivered of a monster without a head or feet, and in stead of a head had a hollow out of which a child did proceed, which was little but lovely, perfect in all but very spare and leane. As also the Kings sending to his Parliament for hostage for the security of his person to come unto London and to sit with his parliament for the composing the diffirences in the kingdome.
Date: [1645]
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Chang and Eng the Siamese twins, aged eighteen, with badminton rackets. Coloured engraving by JLB, 1829.
Date: December 1829Reference: 2610i
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The wonders : lifting the curtain on the freak show, circus and Victorian age / John Woolf.
John WoolfDate: 2019
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A practical essay on the club-foot, and other distortions in the legs and feet of children, intended to show under what circumstances they are curable, or otherwise : with thirty-one cases that have been successfully treated by the method for which the author has obtained the King's patent, and the specification of the patent for that purpose, as well as for curing distortions of the spine, and every other deformity that can be remedied by mechanical applications / by T. Sheldrake.
Sheldrake, Timothy, active 1783-1806.Date: 1798
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Disabling visions : freak shows in modern American literature and visual culture / by Thomas Richard Fahy.
Thomas Richard FahyDate: 2001
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The true description of a monsterous chylde, borne in the Ile of Wight, in this present yeare of oure Lord God, M. D. LXIIII. the month of October : after this forme with a cluster of longe heare about the nauell, the fathers name is Iames Iohnsun, in the parys of freswater.
Barker, John (Ballad writer)Date: The. viii. daye of Nouember. [1564]
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The Highland Youth : this youth, whose miraculous powers of double sight have surprised all who have visited him. Exhibits every day from twelve to half-past five, at the Egyptian Hall, Piccadilly ...
Date: [1832]
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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?]
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The hirsute Kostroma people from the primeval forests of central Russia : the first of their kind ever seen in England.
Date: [1874]
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Four figures: Geneviève, an albino woman of African descent, with white instead of black skin; the conjoint twins Hélène and Judith; and Maria Herig who had a skin disease. Engraving after J. de Sève, 1777.
Reference: 2347i
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Inherited abnormalities of the skin and its appendages / by E.A. Cockayne.
Cockayne, E. A. (Edward Alfred), 1880-Date: 1933
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Birth extraordinary! Patronized by royalty : Just arrived Hartley's unequalled exhibition : To be seen alive in a commodious caravan, in Broadwall, opposite the Mitre, New Cut, Lambeth : Mast. Daniel Hartley, the great Goliah of the day, or the wonder of the age ... the above youth is accompanied and contrasted by The Devonshire Dwarf! Mr Thomas Bartlett, or the man in miniature.
Date: [1861]
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Congenital defects / Lauri Saxén, Juhani Rapola.
Lauri SaxénDate: [1969]
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Anatomie vivante, or, the Living Skeleton.
Date: [1825?]
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Orthopaedia, or, A practical treatise on the aberrations of the human form : by James Knight.
Knight, James, 1810-1887Date: 1884
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[Newspaper cutting (The Globe, 26 August 1887) about the "Death of the Austrian giant" "Winkelmeyer" (Franz Winkelmeier) in Vienna from tuberculosis].
Date: 1887
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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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Hans and Gretel : tango midgets from Germany.
Date: [between 1920 and 1929?]
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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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Miss Hawtin, born without arms. Etching.
Reference: 330i
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"Com. Nutt" and Minnie Warren.
Date: [between 1860 and 1869?]
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In December 1765, there were in York, a young man ad woman, twins, of a surprising stature : they were not quite 17 years of age. The brother was 7ft 3 in.: the sister 7ft 2 in. in height : annual register.
Date: [between 1800 and 1850?]
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Some curious affections (including plasmocytoma to be distinguished from the plasmocytomatous type of multiple myeloma) of the cranium and jaws {see elsewhere for congenital or acquired deficiencies ('holes') in the vault of the skull
Date: 1930-1951Reference: PP/FPW/B.76
Part of: Parkes Weber, Frederick (1863-1962)
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Frank Uffner's American Midgets : actual comparative life size.
Date: [1880?]

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Chang and Eng the Siamese twins, in an oriental setting. Lithograph, 1830.

Chang and Eng the Siamese twins, aged eighteen, with badminton rackets. Coloured engraving by JLB, 1829.

The wonders : lifting the curtain on the freak show, circus and Victorian age / John Woolf.

Disabling visions : freak shows in modern American literature and visual culture / by Thomas Richard Fahy.

The true description of a monsterous chylde, borne in the Ile of Wight, in this present yeare of oure Lord God, M. D. LXIIII. the month of October : after this forme with a cluster of longe heare about the nauell, the fathers name is Iames Iohnsun, in the parys of freswater.

The Highland Youth : this youth, whose miraculous powers of double sight have surprised all who have visited him. Exhibits every day from twelve to half-past five, at the Egyptian Hall, Piccadilly ...

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

Four figures: Geneviève, an albino woman of African descent, with white instead of black skin; the conjoint twins Hélène and Judith; and Maria Herig who had a skin disease. Engraving after J. de Sève, 1777.

Inherited abnormalities of the skin and its appendages / by E.A. Cockayne.

Congenital defects / Lauri Saxén, Juhani Rapola.

Anatomie vivante, or, the Living Skeleton.

Orthopaedia, or, A practical treatise on the aberrations of the human form : by James Knight.

[Newspaper cutting (The Globe, 26 August 1887) about the "Death of the Austrian giant" "Winkelmeyer" (Franz Winkelmeier) in Vienna from tuberculosis].

[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].

Hans and Gretel : tango midgets from Germany.

[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].

Miss Hawtin, born without arms. Etching.

"Com. Nutt" and Minnie Warren.

In December 1765, there were in York, a young man ad woman, twins, of a surprising stature : they were not quite 17 years of age. The brother was 7ft 3 in.: the sister 7ft 2 in. in height : annual register.

Some curious affections (including plasmocytoma to be distinguished from the plasmocytomatous type of multiple myeloma) of the cranium and jaws {see elsewhere for congenital or acquired deficiencies ('holes') in the vault of the skull

Frank Uffner's American Midgets : actual comparative life size.