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Advertisement for Herman Johnson the nineteen year old "giant schoolboy" coming from America to England and appearing alongside Bostock and Wombwell's menagerie.

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Photographic library: "M" series

"M" series glass plate negatives: M0015543-M0015641

1 photograph glass plate negative; 10.2 x 12.7 cm

M0015543: Show bill for Barnum and Bailey's show

M0015544: Show bill for General Tom Thumb at the Victoria Hall, 1844

M0015546: Show bill for Uffner's mammoth giant and marvellous mite

M0015547: Show bill for "Royal American Midgets" including Millie Edwards, Westminster

M0015548: Show bill for "The Superhuman Boy"

M0015549: Show bill for "Frank Uffner's midgets"

M0015550: Show bill for "The Great Irish Giant and his wife, the renowned German Giantess"

M0015551: Show bill for "The German dwarf family" at the Theatre Royal, Paisley

M0015552: Show bill for an exhibition of "the Aztec Lilliputians" and "Earthmen or Erdmanniges"

M0015553EA: Show bill for "Barnum's Prize Ladies" / M0015553EB: Show bill for "American Giant Sisters"

M0015554: The wedding of "American midgets at Manchester"

M0015555: Newspaper cutting about German conjoined twins

M0015556: Show bill for "Anatomical Museum of Dr. Kahn"

M0015557: Wellcome Historical Medical Museum exhibition: "Medicine of the Aboriginal Peoples in the British Commonwealth"

M0015558: Wellcome Historical Medical Museum exhibition: "Child Welfare Through the Ages"

M0015559: Wellcome Historical Medical Museum exhibition: "Child Welfare Through the Ages"

M0015560: Wellcome Historical Medical Museum exhibition: "Electricity in the Service of Medicine"

M0015561: Wellcome Historical Medical Museum exhibition: "Electricity in the Service of Medicine"

M0015562EA: Posset pot, Lambeth delftware, 1651

M0015562EB: Posset pot, Lambeth delftware, white, dimpled, 1661

M0015563: Posset pot, British delftware, c.1700

M0015564: Posset pot, English delftware, possibly Lambeth, c.1690

M0015565: Posset pot, English delftware, c.1730

M0015566: Photograph of a lump of gneiss: effects of intentional blows on manufacture of stone implements

M0015567: Photograph of a lump of gneiss: effects of intentional blows on manufacture of stone implements

M0015568: Photograph of a lump of gneiss: effects of intentional blows on manufacture of stone implements

M0015569: Photograph of a lump of gneiss: effects of intentional blows on manufacture of stone implements

M0015570: Photograph of a lump of gneiss: effects of intentional blows on manufacture of stone implements

M0015571: Photograph of a lump of gneiss: effects of intentional blows on manufacture of stone implements

M0015572: Photograph of a lump of gneiss: effects of intentional blows on manufacture of stone implements

M0015573: Photograph of a lump of gneiss: effects of intentional blows on manufacture of stone implements

M0015574: Photograph of a lump of gneiss: effects of intentional blows on manufacture of stone implements

M0015575: Photograph of a lump of gneiss: effects of intentional blows on manufacture of stone implements

M0015576: Photograph of a lump of gneiss: effects of intentional blows on manufacture of stone implements

M0015577: Plan of Tuc d'Audoubert, a classic Pyrenean cave

M0015578: View of Laugerie-Basse, Dordogne

M0015579: Megalith, Dolmen des Marchands, at Locmariaquer.

M0015580EA: Illustration of perforated bones and teeth / M0015580EB: Map of the French department Allier

M0015581: Paleolithic flint artifacts, Germolles, France

M0015582EA: Paleolithic hand-axes / M0015582EB: Possible uses of microburins

M0015583: Paleoliths from Thames valley / M0015583EB: Microburins

M0015584: Illustration of a winding-sheet containing a corpse, 15th century

M0015585: Illustration of the entombing of Richard Beauchamp, 13th Earl of Warwick (1382-1439)

M0015586: A medieval internment in a church

M0015587: Railings used to protect graves from body snatchers

M0015588: Railings used to protect graves from body snatchers

M0015589: Railings used to protect graves from body snatchers

M0015590: Bone tool, possibly a fabricator

M0015591: Upper Paleolithic bone-work, Chatelperron

M0015592: A group of Palaeolithic and Mesolithic knives or points

M0015593: Drawings of the microlithic industry at Birkwood, Hanchory, Kincardineshire by H.M.L. Paterson

M0015594: Illustration of a flint "Point" made from boulder clay and found near Whitby, Yorkshire

M0015595: Illustration of Upper Paleolithic scrapers from La Grotte des Fees, Chatelperron, France

M0015596: Illustration of antler, bone and stone implements

M0015597: Illustration of Paleolithic points found at Chatelperron, France

M0015598: Archaeological map of Caddington and Dunstable district

M0015599: Illustration of Acheulean bifacial implements found around Watford, Hertfordshire

M0015600: Illustration of implements found in brickearth at Gaddesden Row, Hertfordshire

M0015601: Illustration of Paleolithic flakes from Blackboy Pit near Hertfordshire

M0015602: Illustration of barbed bone points of Maglemosean type from South East England

M0015603: Illustration of hand-axes and scraper from Croxley Green, Hertfordshire

M0015604: Illustration of the flint industry of Maglemosian facies from Broxbourne, Hertfordshire

M0015605: Diagrammatic section of gravel face at Long Valley Wood pit, Croxley, Hertfordshire

M0015606: Illustration of a clay pit showing permanent water, on the border of Hertfordshire and Bedfordshire

M0015607: Map showing the movement of different peoples in Hellenic times, 1000-800 B.C.

M0015608: Etruscan bronze model of liver

M0015609: St Bartholomew's Hospital, London: the courtyard

M0015610: Portrait of an unidentified man

M0015611: Portrait of Sera da Conegliano (fl.1841)

M0015612: Illustration of surgical instruments, from Bertrandi: Trattato delle Operazioni di Chirurgia, 1802

M0015613: Bertrandi: Trattato delle Operazioni di Chirurgia, 1802: title page

M0015614: Bertrandi: Trattato delle Operazioni di Chirurgia, 1802: first page

M0015615: Bertrandi: Opere volume I, 1786: title page

M0015616: Page from Bertrandi: Opere volume I, 1786

M0015617: Page from Bertrandi: Opere volume I, 1786

M0015618: Page from Bertrandi: Opere volume I, 1786

M0015619: Page from Bertrandi: Opere volume I, 1786

M0015620: Bandages and dressings, from Bertrandi: Opere, 1786

M0015621: Bandages and splints, from Bertrandi: Opere, 1786

M0015622: Bandages, from Bertrandi: Opere, 1786

M0015623: Bertrandi: Trattato delle Operazioni di Chirurgia, 1763: title page

M0015624: Bertrandi: Trattato delle Operazioni di Chirurgia, 1763: dedication

M0015625: Bertrandi: Trattato delle Operazioni di Chirurgia, 1763: dedication

M0015626: Bertrandi: Trattato delle Operazioni di Chirurgia, 1763: dedication

M0015627: Page from Bertrandi: Opere, 1786

M0015628: Illustration of tourniquets, from Bertrandi: Opere, 1786

M0015629: Instruments for trephination, from Bertrandi: Opere, 1786

M0015630: Instruments for trephination, from Bertrandi: Opere, 1786

M0015631: Apparatus for a fractured and dislocated patella, 1823

M0015632: Ambulance from the Royal Italian Commission

M0015633: Transport by mule from the Royal Italian Commission

M0015634: Apparatus for relieving stiffness in the shoulder

M0015635: Various types of correction apparatus

M0015636: Schreiber: Chirurgia Ortopedica, 1889: title page

M0015637: Interiors of two wagon-ambulances

M0015638: Orthopaedic corset

M0015639: Riberi: Raccolta delle opere minori, 1851: title page

M0015640EA: Man before plastic surgery / M0015640EB: Man after plastic surgery

M0015641: Andry de Bois-Regard: L'orthopedie, volume II, 1741: title page

M0015545: Show bill for Herman Johnson, "the Giant School boy", Arundel, 1901

M0015545: Show bill for Herman Johnson, "the Giant School boy", Arundel, 1901

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