Oversize ephemera. EPH+34.

Includes posters, handbills and newspaper cuttings about Victorian / Edwardian freak shows. People featured had extremes of obesity (James Paine, the Infant Giant Boy, 1868, C. Heenan the American Prize Lady, 1867), emaciation (Claude Ambroise Seurat, the Living Skeleton, 1825), skin diseases (the Beautiful Spotted Negro Boy), were siamese twins (Eliza and Mary Chulkhurst, the Biddenden Maids, Ritta-Christina, 1829, the Orissa Twins 1898), dwarves (Highland Dwarfs, Sarah Roberts (1858), J. Worrenburg the Swiss Dwarf, Minnie Warren, Little Peter 1898, He Pingping (2010), Field Marshal Tom Thumb (1846), the English Tom Thumb, Aztec Lilliputians, the Earthmen or Erdmanniges (1854), Colonel D. Ulpts 1882), giants (Joachim Eleizegui the Spanish Giant, Marten van Buren Bates the Kentucky Giant, Anna Hanen Swan the Nova Scotia Giantess, Sultan Kosen (2010), Joseph Drasal 1882), the Armless Midget Lady (1896), were of other races (Ojibeway and Potawatamie indians, Zulu Kafirs (1853), a white negress (1755), the Wild Men of Africa (1861), virgin birth (Mary Adams of Tillingham), Anna Monaro, the luminous woman (Pirano, 1934), Ann Moore the fasting woman of Tutbury who 'lived without food' (1807), Arthur Wooten the man in a trance (1896), a man who projected flames from himself (Livorno 1681), a gigantic giraffe (1839), the Gymnetrus Northumbricus sea serpent (1849), A. Broadhurst with a 7 foot long beard (1896), stories from the Metro newspaper (2010 - 2012) featuring tallest and smallest people and (skull) conjoined twins.