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  • Re-engagement owing to enormous success of Joe Elvin in a personally conducted trip on The Tram ("Fares, please.") ... : The extraordinary, phenomenal colossal Russian Fat Girl, Miss Lucie, the heaviest girl in the world. Aged 16 years. Weight 350 lbs. ... / Canterbury Theatre of Varieties, Westminster Bridge Road, S.E.
  • Remarkable characters : [Daniel Lambert].
  • Oversize ephemera : Medical songs 3.
  • Daniel Lambert, weighing 51 stone. Etching.
  • An overweight patient prescribed two alternative treatments by his doctor - nine months yachting or a diet - he chooses to go yachting. Wood engraving after G. Du Maurier, 1888.
  • Oversize ephemera : Medical songs 3.
  • Salt and obesity / CASH.
  • John Love, a very large man. Line engraving.
  • Naylor's Dog Show consisting of prize dogs of various breeds... : novelty extraordinary giant rat... : Mr. Samson, the wonderful Living Skeleton Man who is greatly contrasted with the extraordinary American Fat Child.
  • Daniel Lambert, weighing almost forty stone. Oil painting.
  • Look out for young Hillard the Mitcham Giant : 16 years of age & weighing 30-st. 4-lbs. ; the biggest boy in the world will be shown daily by his own mother : private parties attended daily : admission, 1d.
  • Master Wybrants, an infant weighing 39 pounds, on his mother's knee. Coloured etching by C. Williams, 1806.
  • Oversize ephemera : Medical songs 3.
  • A physician reeling with surprise at an obese elderly man's pulse, the patient is grinning at a woman who approaches him with a tray full of food and wine. Photogravure after J.G. Vibert.
  • Dionysius of Heraclea, an obese man applying leeches to his arms in order to lose weight. Reproduction of a woodcut.
  • Crecraft's exhibition, 15 Tichborne Street : important engagement and great success of the giant sisters... Miss Minnie... Miss Eliza.
  • Another Daniel Lambert! : now exhibiting at 6, Leicester Square, Mr. Mansfield, of Debden, Essex, the most wonderful man ever known ... weighing 469lbs.! Circumference, 97 inches!!!.
  • An obese gouty man in trouble, while his attendants cavort. Coloured lithograph by T. Rowlandson.
  • [Leaflet advertising appearances by Johnny Trundley, the Peckham Fat Boy at Gatti's Palace of Varieties, 214 Westminter Bridge Road, London with a bill of other acts].
  • Oversize ephemera : Medical songs 3.
  • William Ball, a man weighing forty stone. Colour lithograph.
  • Oversize ephemera : Medical songs 3.
  • Oversize ephemera : Medical songs 3.
  • An obese woman getting up off the ground: three series. Collotype after Eadweard Muybridge, 1887.
  • Sudden death of Mrs. Armitage.
  • Comments on corpulency. Lineaments of leanness. Mems on diet and dietetics / By William Wadd.
  • A doctor pumps the stomach of his obese seated patient while another couple wait, one who has already undergone reduction examines his deflated countenance in a mirror. Coloured etching by H. Heath, 1827.
  • To the nobility and gentry : just arrived, the Child of Nature! : a most wonderful phenomema, unparalleled in the annals of history, a female child, only 11 years old, 6 feet high, weighs upwards of 13 stone, a native of Rippingdale, in the county of Lincoln : exhibited at no. 4, Pall Mall.
  • A pair of obese gouty men in night-caps gaping at a fly in fear that it may land on a gouty limb. Coloured etching by I. Cruikshank, 1796, after G.M. Woodward.
  • Oversize ephemera : Medical songs 3.