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Oversize ephemera. EPH+33.
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[Undated handbill (1848?) noting the exhibition of Joachim Eleizegui, The Spanish Giant, at the Cosmorama Rooms, Regent Street, London].
Date: 1848
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On exhibition at Sedgwick's Exhibition : the Norfolk Giant : the largest youth in the world... standing nearly 8 feet in height.
Date: [1880?]
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Royal Aquarium : Adonis, the African midgit on view with Wielands Realities.
Date: [1885?]
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Peter and Paul : the smallest men on Earth : John Lester's Midgets, Midget Town, the Tower, Blackpool.
Date: [between 1920 and 1929?]
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[Newspaper cutting, "Easily rattled" featuring a cartoon of a man talking to a Living Skeleton. ].
Date: date of publication not identified
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Important notice : one fact is worth twenty arguments, and a fact is that the most pleasing and remarkable exhibition in the known world is now in this town... : to be seen alive, a child with one side perfect while the other side of him is double jointed and a skeleton... also the world's wonder, the female Baby Samson.
Date: [1880?]
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South London Palace : Boxing night & every evening / Proprietors, E. Poole & H. Ulph, Jun.
Date: [1886?]
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Anita, "the living doll" : smallest woman in the world : age 30 years, height 26 inches.
Date: [1912?]
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[Handbill advertising appearances from Chang, the great Chinese Giant, and chung Mow, the tartar rebel dwarf, at the Egyptian Hall (Piccadilly, London)].
Date: 1865
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Royal Aquarium : Chang, the great Chinese giant : admission one shilling.
Date: [1880?]
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[Undated handbill (October 1898) advertising an exhibition of The Australian Juvenile Giant Family, Clara, Hercules Tom and Anna Snell].
Date: date of publication not identified
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[Undated handbill (1886) advertising an appearance by a giant (3 feet tall), 1 year old baby at the Albert Palace, Battersea, London ("Every one should see the giant baby")].
Date: 1886
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Harry H. Hargrave presents Guadalupe and Josefina Hinojosa : siamese twin girls born grown together in Havana, Cuba, November 15, 1912.
Date: [1915?]
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Le Prince Colibri : né le 20 octobre 1883, à Levland (Russie) : mesurant 62 centimètres, pesant 4 kilogrammes.
Date: [1910?]
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[Folded leaflet (purple paper - copies on turquoise paper exist) advertising appearances of 'The Pygopagi Twins', Josepha and Rosalie Blazek, conjoined twins, in some sort of performance at the Egyptian Hall, Piccadilly, London, in late 1880. The "Bohemian" twins were under the patronage of the Empress of Austria and Queen of Hungary, Crown Prince Rudolf of Austria and other distinguished personages. The twins both died at the age of 45. ].
Date: 1880
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Mohawk Minstrels : Mr. Andrew Bannister, the Mohawks giant... : Little Thomas, the marvellous male soprano / Proprietors, William Francis & Harry Hunter.
Date: [1890?]
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London Pavilion : the Egyptian Giant : every evening.
Date: [1895?]- Ephemera
Freak shows ephemera. Box 3.
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King of Lilliputians : the original and only Australian General Tom Thumb, the smallest well-formed man in the world... the world-famed court dwarf and jester, Commodore Knott.
Date: [s.n.],
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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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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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[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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The wonder of the sea! : The Gymnetrus Northumbricus, or sea-serpent, caught on the Northumbrian Coast, March 26th, 1849 ... is now exhibiting at the Cosmorama Rooms, 209 Regent Street.
Date: [approximately 1850?]
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Betty Williams : official post card of Ripley's "Believe-it-or-not" Odditorium : a century of progress, 1934.
Date: 1934