Extraordinary birth! : On Sunday last, at Ferguson's Grand Promenade and exhibition rooms, 167, High Holborn, the lady of the celebrated dwarf Senor Santiago de Loss Santos, was delivered of a fine boy, the father being no more than 25 inches high, although 49 years of age, while his mother is but 28 inches high, and 31 years of age : an apartment has been fitted up expressly for the shewing of this great novelty ...

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[1836?]
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view Extraordinary birth! : On Sunday last, at Ferguson's Grand Promenade and exhibition rooms, 167, High Holborn, the lady of the celebrated dwarf Senor Santiago de Loss Santos, was delivered of a fine boy, the father being no more than 25 inches high, although 49 years of age, while his mother is but 28 inches high, and 31 years of age : an apartment has been fitted up expressly for the shewing of this great novelty ...

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Extraordinary birth! : On Sunday last, at Ferguson's Grand Promenade and exhibition rooms, 167, High Holborn, the lady of the celebrated dwarf Senor Santiago de Loss Santos, was delivered of a fine boy, the father being no more than 25 inches high, although 49 years of age, while his mother is but 28 inches high, and 31 years of age : an apartment has been fitted up expressly for the shewing of this great novelty ... Public Domain Mark. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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Leaflet (1836?) advertising appearances by a married dwarf couple in Holborn, London, with their newly born child.

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[1836?]

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1 sheet ; 20 x 14 cm

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