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  • [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].
  • Every evening at 7.45, on a scale of grand magnificance, a new edition of the grand fairy spectacular opera, Babil & Bijou or, the lost regalia : by Dion Boucicault & J.R. Planche ... / Alhambra Theatre, manager, William Holland.
  • 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.
  • To the public! : fifth appearance of the American Giant! On Tuesday evening, Dec. 26th, the celebrated American Giant, Mr. Freeman ...
  • In 1580, a Dutch dwarf exhibited himself in London : he was three feet high, had never a good foot, nor no knee at all, and yet could dance : he had no arm, but a stump to the elbow, or little more to the right side ... He was accompanied by a Dutch giant.
  • Gruss von Krichel's Riesen- und Märchen-Revue.
  • [Handbill (20 December 1886) for a variety show at the Canterbury Theatre of Varieties (Westminster Bridge Road, London, England) featuring the 8 foot tall Belgian giant Alfredo Devartos as well as Testo (strong man) and Onri].
  • 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!.
  • [Page from The Entr'acte for 22 January 1877 showing a cartoon of "A bit of Herr Winkelmeier, the giant at the London Pavilion"].
  • 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.
  • [Single sheet programme (March 1887) for a variety programme featuring Herr Winkelmeier at the London Pavilion].
  • The Russian giant Machnow at the London Hippodrome : arrival.
  • David with the head of Goliath. Line engraving by R. van Audenaerd after C. Maratta.
  • The giant Antaeus carries Virgil and Dante to the Ninth Circle of Hell. Etching by B. Pinelli, 1825.
  • [Undated handbill (August 1880?) advertising appearances at the Royal Aquarium, London by Chang, the vast Mongolian, accompanied by Henrik Brustad, the huge Norwegian, the Chinese Tom Thumb, the midget Adonis, the Anakites (giants) and midgets. Printed on off-white paper].
  • Giant Amazon Queen : Babil and Bijou : Alhambra.
  • Henri Cot : the French giant, who would like to marry the tallest English lady whom he may meet.
  • A dwarf on the shoulders of a giant, in a rowdy inn. Etching by G. Cruikshank.
  • South London Palace : Boxing night & every evening / Proprietors, E. Poole & H. Ulph, Jun.
  • David with the head of Goliath, accompanied by an angel and cherubs. Lithograph by G. Sensi after N. Poussin.
  • 222, Piccadilly : just arrived from Paris, an immense French giant, who has excited the greatest astonishment in that capital : measures seven feet four inches ...
  • Henri Cot : the French giant, who would like to marry the tallest English lady whom he may meet.
  • S. Watson's Grand American Museum, 28 Oxford Street : Living curiosities from all parts of the world : Captain Alexander, the giant of giants... [etc.].
  • Second appearance, these three years, of Mrs. Yates whom is engaged for six nights only : second appearance of Monsieur Bihin the celebrated Belgian giant, the tallest and handsomest man in the world, and also of the original troupe of Parisian monkeys! / Theatre Royal, Dublin.
  • Royal Aquarium : Chang, the great Chinese giant : admission one shilling.
  • Souvenir of Abomah : the tallest lady in the world.
  • Barnum's new freaks.
  • David with the head of Goliath. Line engraving by J.P. Saenredam, 1600, after L. van Leyden.
  • [Leaflet advertising appearances by Herr Winkelmeier at the London Pavilion in January 1887, appearing with a wide variety of "versatile and comic artistes"].
  • [Newspaper clipping showing the skeletons of Mademoiselle Crachani, a Sicilian dwarf and Patrick O'Brien, the Irish Giant on display at the Royal College of Surgeons].