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On hearing the bells chime for a funeral, very late at night / W.L.
Date: [1760?]
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The long and the short of it : Nepalese aged 72 reaches the heights as the world's shortest ever man.
Date: 2012
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Hôpital militaire français des Grands-Champs, à Constantinople.
Date: [1854?]- Ephemera
[Press cuttings about Jewish people] : 1753-1771.
Date: 1753-1771- Ephemera
Oversize ephemera. EPH+33.
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Feuilleton du Temps du 9 novembre 1911 : causerie scientifique : le monde vivant / Edmond Perrier.
Perrier, Edmond, 1844-1921Date: 1911
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Daniel Lambert was born at Leicester on the 13th March, 1770 ...
Date: [between 1810 and 1850?]
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[Undated newspaper cutting (early 19th century?) about Dock, the Wild Indian Venus, a Brazilian of the Butucudos tribe with a lower lip plate and ear tips resting on her shoulders, to be seen "at the Crown Hotel". ].
Date: [between 1800 and 1850?]
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Bushmen children.
Date: [1845]
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The cabinet of curiosities, or wonders of the world displayed. No.5, The Spotted Negro Boy.
Date: [between 1820 and 1860?]
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A giant, Mr. Robert Hales, named "The Yorkshire Giant," who will exhibit in Nottingham next week, is nearly eight feet in height, and weighs 462 lb.
Date: [1848]- Ephemera
At the desire of the proprietors of the new Iron Pear-Tree Water, and fully to satisfy the Public in this particular, I hearby declare... no public trial of the waters was made by us... / Erasmus King.
King, Erasmus, -1760.Date: [1753]
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Just arrived at this place, and to be exhibited in a large and commodious caravan, during the fair : that wonderful American youth, Mr. Leach ... the shortest person in the world!.
Date: [between 1816 and 1818?]
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[Newspaper cutting, "Easily rattled" featuring a cartoon of a man talking to a Living Skeleton. ].
Date: date of publication not identified
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A skirmish on the railway line in Manchuria : a Russian hospital train collecting the wounded (from a sketch by a Russian artist-correspondent).
Date: [1905?]
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[Newspaper cutting (1871? The Times?) about an appearance of Christina and Millie McCoy, 'The African Twins' or Two-Headed Nightingale (with Anna Swan, the Nova Scotian Giantess and Captain Bates, a Kentucky Giant). They were conjoined twin girls, born in North Carolina in 1851. Their mother was a slave].
Date: 1871- Ephemera
A discovery for dressing the hair : how lovely and engaging a lady looks with her hair curled! but the appearance is transient, as a damp atmosphere, exercise, &c. soon discomposes and entirely destroys the curl, to remedy this onconvenience Atkinson's original curling fluid is eminently calculated... / James Atkinson.
Date: [1813]
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In use 100 years : The Poor Man's Friend or ointment of many virtues ; Pilula Antiscrophula or alterative pills.
Date: 1897
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[Undated newspaper cutting (March 1869) advertising The Nova Scotia Giantess, Anna Swan, the Siamese twins and the Circassian Lady at the Egyptian Hall, Piccadilly, London].
Date: 1869
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[Newspaper cutting about an appearance by a giant in London on 12 May 1716: "A chronicle of curious events"].
Date: 1889- Books
[A collection of extracts from the Gentleman's Magazine, on small-pox, inoculation, and vaccination].
Date: [1752]
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[Newspaper cutting (4 July 1882) advertising the Royal American Midgets: General Mite, his father, E.F. Flynn and Miss Millie Edwards at the Imperial Theatre, Westminster, London].
Date: [1882]
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Tootsie and the giant.
Date: 1887
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Flatulence is not merely relieved, but cured by being prevented, through taking Tablones.
Date: [between 1908 and 1910?]
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Capriton tablets.
Date: [between 1960 and 1980?]