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  • For a short time only, commencing Monday, July 17th : the wonderful Two-Headed Nightingale Company ... also Miss Anna Swan the famous Nova-Scotian Giantess ... Capt. M. V. Bates the great Kentucky Giant.
  • Boxing night and until further notice : special engagement of Herr Joseph Drasal, the Tyrolese Giant, aged 32 years, the tallest man in the world, measuring eight feet four inches also Colonel D. Ulpts, the Tyrolese Midget, aged 22 years, measuring 34 inches high. First appearance in England / South London Palace, London Road, near the Elephant & Castle ... under the sole management of Mr. H. Ulph, Jun.
  • Henri Cot, the French giant and Prince Colibri, the midget.
  • [Undated handbill advertising an exhibition of the Irish Giant, German Giantess and the Giant Baby at the South London Palace].
  • [Undated newspaper cutting (September 1886) advertising an appearance by a giant (3 feet tall), 1 year old baby at the Albert Palace, Battersea, London].
  • 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.
  • Frederick the Great : the English giant : born at Bayswater, age 19 : Height nearly 8 ft. and still growing. Weight over 22 stone. Can span 8 ft. Biggest hands in the world.
  • Gruss von Krichel's Riesen- und Märchen-Revue.
  • Frederick the Great : the English giant : born at Bayswater, age 19 : Height nearly 8 ft. and still growing. Weight over 22 stone. Can span 8 ft. Biggest hands in the world.
  • [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].
  • Machnow : the Russian giant : the tallest man on Earth : Height, 9ft 2 1/2 inches. Weight, 360 lbs. Age, 28.
  • Established in public favor : Now exhibiting at 68, Cheapside, from ten in the morning till nine at night, an immense French giant : measures exactly 7 feet 4 inches ...
  • The tallest man in the world : Herr Winkelmeier, the celebrated Austrian giant, exclusively engaged at the London Pavilion.
  • Patrick O'Brien, a giant. Etching by J. Kay, 1803.
  • Hank, world's tallest bartender, 7 ft 8 inches : Terry, world's shortest bartender, 4ft 11 inches : see us at Bradley's 5 and 10, longest bar in the world : Fillmore Street, between Geary & Post, San Francisco.
  • Royal Aquarium : on view with Wielands Realities!!! : Chang.
  • Just arrived in London, and to be seen in an elegant apartment, at the cane-shop, in Spring Garden Gate, next door to the house late Cox's Museum : the Modern Living Colossus, or wonderful Irish Giant, only 21 years of age, measures eight feet two inches high ...
  • Chang, the Chinese giant : Brustad, the giant of Norway. Che-Mah, the Chinese Tom Thumb. Madaree, the real hindoo jadooger. And the midget prince 'Adonis' / Royal Aquarium, Westminster.
  • The Chinese giant ... : The Jenner monument at Boulogne.
  • [Article from the 17 June issue of 'Harper's young people' about: Real giants and dwarfs].
  • [Handbill advertising appearances from Chang, the great Chinese Giant, and chung Mow, the tartar rebel dwarf, at the Egyptian Hall (Piccadilly, London)].
  • There is a young colossus to be seen at the sign of the French Horn and Mansion House, opposite the Mansion House : being a boy fifteen years of age, seven feet high, and every way proportioned ...
  • Look! Look! Startling attractions. Monday, December 6th, 1886, and every evening : Another surprise for London. Important engagement of Pat O'Brien, the great Irish Giant and his wife, the renowned German Giantess ... / Middlesex Music Hall, Mogul Tavern, 167 Drury Lane.
  • Undated fragment advertising Aama the giantess and Colonel Ulpts at the Trocadero (London).
  • [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].
  • [Leaflet advertising appearances by Captain Ureck, the Hungarian giant vocalist and a bill of many others at the Royal Theatre (Late Weston's) on Holborn, London].
  • [Undated handbill (1880?) advertising appearances by Chang, the Fychow giant, at the Royal Aquarium, London accompanied by Henrik Brustad, the Norwegian giant].
  • Look! Look! Startling attractions : Monday, December 6th, 1886, and every evening : another surprise for London. Important engagement of Pat O'Brien, the great Irish giant and his wife, the renowned German giantess direct from Barnum's circus / Middlesex Music Hall, Mogul Tavern, 167 Drury Lane.
  • Machnow : the Russian giant : the tallest man on Earth : Height, 9ft 2 1/2 inches. Weight, 360 lbs. Age, 28.
  • [Leaflet advertising appearances by Herr Winkelmeier at the London Pavilion in February 1887].