195 results filtered with: Giants (Folklore)
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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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A giant, Mr. Robert Hales, named "The Yorkshire Giant," who will exhibit in Nottingham next week, is nearly eight feet in height, and weighs 462 lb.
Date: [1848]
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Monday, October 8th, 1883 : special engagement of Captain Ureck, the Hungarian giant : the tallest man in the world / Raglan Music Hall, Charlotte St., Blackfriars, Star Music Hall, Abbey St., Bermondsey.
Date: 1883
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South London Palace : Boxing night & every evening / Proprietors, E. Poole & H. Ulph, Jun.
Date: [1886?]
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Arthur Lloyd : invt & delt. 1882.
Date: 1882
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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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Ne plus ultra!! : now exhibiting : the Spanish Goliah, the celebrated Senor Joachim Eleizegui, from the Basque provinces of Spain ; twenty-three years of age - stands 7 feet 10 in. weighs 450 pounds!.
Date: [1850]
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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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[Undated newspaper cutting (March 1869) advertising The Nova Scotia Giantess, Anna Swan, the Siamese twins and the Circassian Lady at the Egyptian Hall, Piccadilly, London].
Date: 1869
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[Newspaper cutting about an appearance by a giant in London on 12 May 1716: "A chronicle of curious events"].
Date: 1889
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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?]
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Patrick O'Brien, a giant. Etching by J. Kay, 1803.
Date: 1803Reference: 915i
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Tootsie and the giant.
Date: 1887- Ephemera
Freak shows ephemera. Box 3.
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David with the head of Goliath. Lithograph by Markendorf, 1839, after A. Turchi.
Turchi, Alessandro, 1578-1649.Date: 1839Reference: 319i
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[Newspaper cutting (October 1887?) "Bow Street : a giant in trouble" about 7' 5" James Patrick Folly's arrest and trial for drunken assault on a police officer in Tottenham Court Road].
Date: 1887
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[Undated handbill (printed in Piccadilly by Percival) advertising an exhibition of a 7' 2" Lapland Giantess and her companion at Saville House, Leicester Square, London].
Date: date of publication not identified
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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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David with the head of Goliath, accompanied by an angel and cherubs. Lithograph by G. Sensi after N. Poussin.
Poussin, Nicolas, 1594?-1665.Reference: 4087i
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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?]