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[Undated Victorian handbill (Bristol, 1853?) 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: 1853
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Online
[Undated handbill advertising an exhibition of Master Joseph Lee, the Yorkshire Little Man].
Date: date of publication not identified
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[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].
Date: 1887
Ephemera
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[Undated handbill (1885?) advertising an appearance by Barnum's Boston Prize ladies (the Sisters Holland?), "weighing together nearly half-a-ton". Printed in Bristol. ].
Date: 1885
Ephemera
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[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].
Date: 1848
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[Newspaper cutting, "A soft snap" (in the series 'snap-shots') featuring a cartoon and a Living Skeleton and a Wild Man of Borneo talking about a Two-Headed Man. ].
Date: date of publication not identified
Ephemera
Online
[Undated handbill advertising George Conquest as 'Harlequin, the Yellow Dwarf', a grand Christmas pantomime at Alexandra Palace, London].
Date: date of publication not identified
Ephemera
Online
[Undated handbill advertising a performance by The Canadian Marvel, an armless man. Possibly at the Agricultural Hall, Islington, 1887. ].
Date: 1887
Ephemera
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[Article (Saturday 4 August 1888) entitled: A chronicle of curious events. 6th August 1709 : Oliver Cromwell's 7' 6" porter Daniel was committed to Bedlam, having gone mad reading texts of "speculative divinity". He had been givien a bible by Nell Gwyn].
Date: 1888
Ephemera
Online
[Undated handbill (1891? printed in Glasgow) advertising an exhibition of the conjoined twin, Lalloo, a 17 year old Indian boy and his twin (growing out of his breastbone)].
Date: date of publication not identified
Ephemera
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[Undated handbill (May 1871?) advertising an appearance by Miss C. Heenan, the Great American Prize Lady, weighing 40 stone at the age of 22, at The Universum, 369 Oxford Street, London].
Date: 1871
Ephemera
Online
[Handbill advertising The Edmonton twins: conjoined twins on exhibition at the Adelaide Gallery in the Lowther Arcade, London. The twins were born on 30 January 1855].
Date: 1855
Ephemera
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[Newspaper clipping (1868?) featuring a portrait of 'The Siamese Twins' Chang and Eng].
Date: 1868
Ephemera
Online
[Undated handbill (August 1885?) advertising Howard's Grand Pavilion of Living Wonders featuring Madame Howard, the African lion-faced lady. She appears to have been a black woman with a beard].
Date: 1885
Ephemera
Online
[Undated, illustrated (cutting? leaflet?) about bearded Annie Jones-Elliot, "The Esau Lady"].
Date: date of publication not identified
Ephemera
Online
[Newspaper cutting titled: New wonders at the Royal Aquarium (November 1881?) in Mr. Farini's (William Hunt) Gallery. These are Captain Georges Costentenus and the Leopard Boy].
Date: 1881
Ephemera
Online
[Undated, illustrated handbill (February 1867?) advertising an appearance at Westminster Hall by Robert Tipney, Mr. Chipperfield's Living Skeleton, 26 years old and weighing 49 pounds. ].
Date: 1867
Ephemera
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[Undated handbill (printed in Newington by Perry) advertising an exhibition of a 7' 2" Lapland Giantess and her companion at Saville House, Leicester Square, London].
Date: date of publication not identified
Ephemera
Online
[Newspaper clipping (1880) advertising an appearance by Chang, the Fychow giant and Professor Cross, phrenologist at the Royal Aquarium, London and King Theebaw's sacred Burmese hairy family at the Piccadilly Hall, London].
Date: 1880
Ephemera
Online
[Undated handbill (June 1886?) advertising an exhibition of "King Theebaw's Burmese sacred family" at the Piccadilly Hall, London].
Date: 1886
Ephemera
Online
[1878 newspaper report of the funeral of William Campbell, the Scottish Giant at Jesmond Cemetary].
Date: 1878
Ephemera
Online
[Undated handbill (December 1881) for the Royal Aquarium advertising Farini's (William Hunt) wonder of wonders, the tattooed Captain Georges Costentenus and the Leopard Boy].
Date: 1881
Ephemera
Online
[Undated, illustrated handbill (June 1880) advertising an appearance by Chang, the Fychow giant, at the Royal Aquarium, London accompanied by Henrik Brustad, the Norwegian giant].
Date: 1880
Ephemera
Online
[Undated newspaper cutting (September 1886) advertising an appearance by a giant (3 feet tall), 1 year old baby at the Albert Palace, Battersea, London].
Date: 1886
Ephemera
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Undated newspaper clipping about Aama the giantess and Colonel Ulpts at the Tocadero (London).
Date: date of publication not identified