Oversize ephemera. EPH+35.

Includes posters, handbills and newspaper cuttings about Victorian / Edwardian freak shows. People featured had extremes of obesity (C. Heenan the American Prize Lady, M.E. Bland the Anglo-Saxon Wonder, 1875, Elizabeth Armitage 1846, the Jumbo Sisters 1885, Daniel Hartley 1861), emaciation (Mr. Tipney the Skeleton Man Alive), skin diseases (Mlle Augusta the Albino Queen, 1885), were siamese twins (Millie Christine, the Two Headed Nightingale (1885), Rosalie and Josepha the Pygopagi Twins, 1880), extremely strong (Mr, Canfield the American Samson), dwarves (Don Francisco Hidalgo the Marquis of Liliput, Che-Mah the Chinese Tom Thumb, the Midget Prince Adonis, the Brockstedt Family, the Liliputian King (1845), Field Marshal Tom Thumb (1846), Joseph Cardoso Pereira the Portuguese Dwarf, Frank Uffner's Midgets: Lucia Zarate, General Mite 1880, Lieut. Tiny Tit 1885, General Tom Thumb, Commodore Nutt, Minnie Warren, Thomas Bartlett the Devonshire Dwarf 1861, George Conquest 1875, Tom Trump 1875), giants (William Campbell the Scottish Giant (1875), Chang the Chinese Giant, Henrik Brustad the Giant of Norway, Marian the Giant Amazon Queen 1882, Captain Alexander 1885, Maid Maryann 1882, Marian the Alhambra Giantess 1883, Herr Winkelmeier, Alfredo Devartos the Belgian Giant 1886), Carl, the armless and legless wonder (1885), were of other races (esquimaux indians 1823, Albino Family of "white negroes" 1860, a play, the Black Doctor, 1869), travelling zoos, objects found in Frank Wilson's stomach.