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[Small, undated handbill (Febuary 1853?) printed in black on yellow paper advertising "Kaffir war, the wonder of the ace, the last of the race" at Smith's, 63 Red Lion Street, Holborn, London].
Date: 1853
Ephemera
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[Undated handbill advertising an unparalleled programme of holiday entertainments at Alexandra Palace on Boxing Day].
Date: 19th century
Ephemera
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[Newspaper clipping (from the Illustrated Times, 3 October 1868) about 'Dr. Nelaton and the Siamese Twins' Chang and Eng].
Date: 1868
Ephemera
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[Leaflet (8 June 1880) about the conjoined twin girls, Rosalie and Josepha Blazek. ].
Breisky, A. (August), 1832-1889Date: 1880
Ephemera
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[Undated yellow handbill (London, December 1884?) advertising an appearance by Harvey's Midges: Princess Lottie, Prince Midge, Miss Jennie Worgen, General Tot and Mlle. Lottie Adelina de Lara, child pianist, at the Piccadilly Hall, London].
Date: 1884
Ephemera
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[Undated handbill (1874) for an exhibition of Andree & Son, or the Kostroma people : "Two human beings with dogs' heads" at the South London Palace. Printed on white paper].
Date: date of publication not identified
Ephemera
Online
[Undated handbill (London, 1851?) advertising an appearance by Joseph Gantonio, the young Italian giant, at Saville House, Leicester Square, London].
Date: 1851
Ephemera
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[Illustrated ticket to an entertainment of Henry Smith, vocalist, and the Aztec Lilliputians from Iximaya in central America and the Earthmen or Erdmanniges from under the earth in South Africa. Dated May 1855].
Date: date of publication not identified
Ephemera
Online
[Newspaper clipping (1874?) featuring an illustration of 'The Siamese Twins' Chang and Eng and the report of their death with an obituary].
Date: 1874
Ephemera
Online
[Undated handbill (November 1885?) advertising an appearance at the Albert Palace, London by "little people" Commodore Foote (CHarles Nestel) and his sister Eliza (the Fairy Queen)].
Date: 1885
Ephemera
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[Pages 13-16 (1860s?) from a leaflet / catalgue (?) about 'The Heteradelph, or, Double-bodied Boy' on display at Dr. Kahn's Museum near Leicester Square, London].
Date: 186*
Ephemera
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Undated handbill advertising 'The living wonder', M. Aish with a breast in place of her right leg, showing at London Dairy, 96 The Strand, another (1854) of a 'Limbless child' on show at the Lowther Arcade (London?) and a newspaper cutting of 'An armless bride' (August 1874).
Date: date of publication not identified
Ephemera
Online
[Victorian handbill (May 24th 1852) advertising 21 year old Madame Fortunne of Geneva and her 4 inch long, bushy, black beard, on exhibition at Linwood Gallery, Leicester Square, London. ].
Date: 1852
Ephemera
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American Jack : the Frog Man... : American Museum, 8 Catherine Street, Strand, W.C. : manager: M. Pollock.
Date: [1888?]
Ephemera
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Undated fragment advertising Aama the giantess and Colonel Ulpts at the Trocadero (London).
Date: date of publication not identified
Ephemera
Online
[Newspaper cutting about multiple births ('Ten children at a birth') in Blackburn (1786) and Sheffield (1833)].
Date: date of publication not identified
Ephemera
Online
[Newspaper clipping (Sunday Times, 10 August 1939) of a brief history of the Siamese Twins Chang and Eng and Elizabeth and Mary Chulkhurst, the 'Biddenden maids'. Written by Ernest A. Ebblewhite].
Ebblewhite, Ernest A.Date: 1939
Ephemera
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[Undated handbill (October 1883?) advertising Madame Howard, the African lion-faced lady at Howard's Grand Pavilion of Living Wonders, 162 New Cut, Waterloo, London. She appears to have been a black woman with a beard].
Date: 1883
Ephemera
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[Undated handbill (August 1885?) advertising Howard's Grand Pavilion of Living Wonders waxwork and fine art gallery (at the Mitcham Fair?), featuring Madame Howard, the African lion-faced lady. She appears to have been a black woman with a beard].
Date: 1885
Ephemera
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[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].
Date: 1880
Ephemera
Online
[Small handbill advertising an appearance by Che Mah, the celebrated Chinese Dwarf, the smallest man in the world at the Queen's Arms, High Street, Islington (December 1868?)].
Date: 1868
Ephemera
Online
[Undated handbill (June 1880) advertising an appearance by Chang, the Fychow giant, at the Royal Aquarium, London].
Date: 1880
Ephemera
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[Undated handbill (1835?) advertising 'L'anatomie vivante, or Living Skeleton" at the York Hotel, William Square (Liverpool?)].
Date: 1835
Ephemera
Online
[Undated handbill (1878) advertising an exhibition of W. Campbell, the Scottish Giant, at the Egyptian Hall (London)].
Date: 1878
Ephemera
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[Undated Victorian handbill (London, 1855?) advertising an appearance by Sarah Ann Gallant of Great Yarmouth, 7 years old, 8 stone 7 pounds, with a head 48 inches in circumference].
Date: 1855