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Ephemera
Online
Monday, Dec. 20th first appearance of the wonderful Belgian giant (8 ft. high) Alfredo Devartos : (24 years of age) trumpeter in the guards of the King of Belgium, & the tallest man in the whole army) ... last five nights of the Schaffer Troupe ... / Canterbury Theatre of Varieties, Westminster Bridge Road.
Date: [1886?]
Ephemera
Online
[Newspaper cutting (1887?) "An Irish giant in court" about 7' 5" James Patrick Folly's arrest and trial for drunken assault on a police officer in Tottenham Court Road].
Date: 1887
Ephemera
Online
Friday, Jan. 19, farewell benefit of Mr. C. Freeman the American Giant! : and last night but one of his engagement ...
Date: [1843?]
Ephemera
Online
[Leaflet (1855?) advertising appearances by 'Three White Hair'd Ladies' (6' 2") and their 30" tall brother at 13 High Holborn, London].
Date: 1855
Ephemera
Online
Royal Aquarium : the original Chang, Brustad, the Norwegian giant, the Chinese Tom Thumb, Wieland's living curiosities : admission one shilling.
Date: [1880?]
Ephemera
Online
[Newspaper cutting (1848?) noting the exhibition of Joachim Eleizegui, The Spanish Giant, at the Cosmorama Rooms, Regent Street, London. There are others about the Royal Polytechnic Institution, Regent Street, Grimstone's Aromatic Regenerator (hair restorer) and J. D. Carr and Co.'s nutritious and health giving biscuits].
Date: 1848
Ephemera
Online
Royal Aquarium : Notice: the manager has the pleasure to announce that he has concluded arrangements with Chang, the great Chinese giant.
Date: [1880?]
Ephemera
Oversize ephemera. EPH+34.
Pictures
Online
Three giants, the tallest identified as Charles Byrne and the others as twins, and six spectators including an unidentified lady and dwarf. Etching by J. Kay, 1784, after himself.
John KayDate: 1784Reference: 2289i
Ephemera
Online
The tallest man in the world : Herr Winkelmeier, the celebrated Austrian giant, exclusively engaged at the London Pavilion.
Date: [1885?]
Pictures
Online
David with the head of Goliath before Saul. Line engraving by J.L. Roullet after J. Parrocel.
Joseph ParrocelReference: 317i
Ephemera
Online
[Article (Saturday 4 August 1888) entitled: A chronicle of curious events. 6th August 1709 : Oliver Cromwell's 7' 6" porter Daniel was committed to Bedlam, having gone mad reading texts of "speculative divinity". He had been givien a bible by Nell Gwyn].
Date: 1888
Ephemera
Online
Royal Aquarium : Chang, the great Chinese giant : just arrived : admission one shilling.
Date: [1880?]
Pictures
Online
Eight comic scenes from the life of the poor Irish giant. Reproduction of a wood engraving by G.F.S.
Reference: 2952i
Ephemera
Online
Three astonishing wonders!! ... : the British phenomenon Miss Stringer, the young Yorkshire Giantess ... Miss Newcomb, the Lincolnshire Lady ... Master Wall, the Cornish Dwarf.
Date: [between 1820 and 1840?]
Pictures
Online
William Bradley, a giant. Coloured etching, 1810.
Date: December 1810Reference: 179i
Books
The gentleman giant : the biography of Robert Pershing Wadlow / by Frederic Fadner, assisted by Harold F. Wadlow.
Fadner, Frederic, 1883-Date: [1944]
Pictures
Online
Amanab, a giant. Reproduction of wood engraving.
Reference: 133i
Ephemera
Online
Henrik Brustad the Norwegian giant : a penny-piece will pass through his finger-ring : stands nearly 8 feet, acknowledged to be the tallest man in the world : to be seen every evening ... / Assembly Rooms, Anlaby-Road, (near Hengler's Circus.).
Date: [approximately 1880?]
Ephemera
Online
Special arrangement for Christmas holidays of Herr Joseph Drasal, the German Giant, the tallest man ever exhibited : and Colonel Dietrich Ulpts, the Tyrolese Dwarf, 34 inches high / The Royal (late Weston's), Holborn ; Arliss Andrews, printer, 31 Museum Street, Bloomsbury, W.C.
Date: [1882?]
Ephemera
Oversize ephemera (A1). Box ++3.
Ephemera
Online
[Undated handbill (printed in Newington by Perry) advertising an exhibition of a 7' 2" Lapland Giantess and her companion at Saville House, Leicester Square, London].
Date: date of publication not identified
Ephemera
Online
[Newspaper clipping (1880) advertising an appearance by Chang, the Fychow giant and Professor Cross, phrenologist at the Royal Aquarium, London and King Theebaw's sacred Burmese hairy family at the Piccadilly Hall, London].
Date: 1880
Ephemera
Online
Machnow : the Russian giant : the tallest man on Earth : Height, 9ft 2 1/2 inches. Weight, 360 lbs. Age, 28.
Date: [1906?]
Ephemera
Online
A troubled and impecunious giant was brought up at Bow-street the other day before the presiding magistrate. : His name was James Patrick Tolley, aged forty-eight, standing seven feet five inches in his stockings ...
Date: 1887