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Ephemera
Online
Look! Look! Startling attractions. Monday, December 6th, 1886, and every evening : Another surprise for London. Important engagement of Pat O'Brien, the great Irish Giant and his wife, the renowned German Giantess ... / Middlesex Music Hall, Mogul Tavern, 167 Drury Lane.
Date: 1886
Ephemera
Online
Undated fragment advertising Aama the giantess and Colonel Ulpts at the Trocadero (London).
Date: date of publication not identified
Ephemera
Online
The most astonishing contrast of a female dwarf and male giant.
Date: [1819?]
Pictures
Online
David with the head of Goliath. Line engraving by J.P. Saenredam, 1600, after L. van Leyden.
Lucas van LeydenDate: 1600Reference: 316i
Pictures
Online
Simon Paap, a dwarf and James Toller, a giant. Line engraving by S. Springsguth, 1817.
Date: 20 May 1817Reference: 2352i
Books
Online
A true relation of a mighty giant named Theutobocus, sometimes king of the Theutons and Cimbrians, overthrown by Consul Marius 1700 yeares agone : buried then by the castle of Langon, neere the towne of Romans in the prouince of Daufiné in Fraunce, whole bones were found of by chaunce, an. 1613, in a place called to this day, The Giants Ground, and vpon his tombe ingrauen in old letters Theutobocus Rex.
Tissot, Jacques.Date: 1615
Ephemera
Oversize ephemera (A1). Box ++75, Freakshow posters.
Ephemera
Online
Another surprise for London! : Important engagement of Pat O'Brien, the Great Irish Giant and his wife, the renowned German Giantess direct from Barnum's American Circus : the tallest married couple in the world ...
Date: 1886
Ephemera
Online
To the nobility and gentry : just arrived, the Child of Nature! : a most wonderful phenomema, unparalleled in the annals of history, a female child, only 11 years old, 6 feet high, weighs upwards of 13 stone, a native of Rippingdale, in the county of Lincoln : exhibited at no. 4, Pall Mall.
Date: [1810]
Pictures
Online
The marriage of Captain Martin van Buren to Anna Swan. Wood engraving, 1871.
Date: [June 1871]Reference: 2744i
Pictures
A giant holding up a boulder with a landscape on which eleven human figures are dancing and three are sitting with vessels out of which streams of water flow, while around the giant's legs are attacking male figures armed with spears. Etching by M. Klinger, 1912.
Max KlingerDate: 1912Reference: 24236i
Pictures
Online
Thomas Bell, a giant. Line engraving, 1813.
Date: 4 May 1813Reference: 154i
Ephemera
Online
For a short time only, commencing Monday, July 17th : the wonderful Two-Headed Nightingale Company ... also Miss Anna Swan the famous Nova-Scotian Giantess ... Capt. M. V. Bates the great Kentucky Giant.
Date: [1870?]
Ephemera
Online
[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].
Date: 1880
Ephemera
Online
Royal Aquarium : on view with Wielands Realities!!! : Chang.
Date: [1880?]
Ephemera
Online
[Undated handbill (June 1880) advertising an appearance by Chang, the Fychow giant, at the Royal Aquarium, London].
Date: 1880
Ephemera
Online
There is a young colossus to be seen at the sign of the French Horn and Mansion House, opposite the Mansion House : being a boy fifteen years of age, seven feet high, and every way proportioned ...
Date: [1745?]
Pictures
Online
David with the head of Goliath on his sword. Line engraving attributed to P. de Jode after J.P. Saenredam, 1600, after L. van Leyden.
Lucas van LeydenReference: 315i
Ephemera
Online
Marian, the Alhambra Giantess : 8 ft. 2 in. high and still growing. In conjunction with the elegant midget Colonel Ulpts every evening / London Pavilion.
Date: [1883?]
Pictures
Online
Robert Hales, a giant. Wood engraving.
Reference: 324i
Ephemera
Online
[Undated handbill (1878) advertising an exhibition of W. Campbell, the Scottish Giant, at the Egyptian Hall (London)].
Date: 1878
Ephemera
Freak shows ephemera. Box 1.
Ephemera
Freak shows ephemera. Box 2.
Pictures
Online
David with the head of Goliath. Line engraving by G. Rousselet after G. Reni.
Guido ReniReference: 321i
Ephemera
Online
Van Albert : der gröbte Mann, 24 Jahre alt : Seppetoni, der kleinste Mann, 29 Jahre alt.
Date: [between 1920 and 1929?]