Concept
Freak shows
Images
![[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].](https://iiif.wellcomecollection.org/image/b28480429_0001.jp2/full/282%2C/0/default.jpg)
![[Illustrated ticket to an exhibition of Aztec Lilliputians from Iximaya in central America and the Earthmen or Erdmanniges from under the earth in South Africa. Possibly 1855. Printed in red on white paper].](https://iiif.wellcomecollection.org/image/b28479221_EPH_499A_16_0001.jp2/full/420%2C/0/default.jpg)
![[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. ].](https://iiif.wellcomecollection.org/image/b2848003x_EPH_499A_44_0001.jp2/full/282%2C/0/default.jpg)
Catalogue
- Ephemera
Oversize ephemera. EPH+33.
![view [Undated handbill (1848?) noting the exhibition of Joachim Eleizegui, The Spanish Giant, at the Cosmorama Rooms, Regent Street, London].](https://iiif.wellcomecollection.org/thumbs/b28480442_0001.jp2/full/!200,200/0/default.jpg)
- Ephemera
- Online
[Undated handbill (1848?) noting the exhibition of Joachim Eleizegui, The Spanish Giant, at the Cosmorama Rooms, Regent Street, London].
Date: 1848
- Ephemera
- Online
On exhibition at Sedgwick's Exhibition : the Norfolk Giant : the largest youth in the world... standing nearly 8 feet in height.
Date: [1880?]
- Ephemera
- Online
Royal Aquarium : Adonis, the African midgit on view with Wielands Realities.
Date: [1885?]
- Ephemera
- Online
Peter and Paul : the smallest men on Earth : John Lester's Midgets, Midget Town, the Tower, Blackpool.
Date: [between 1920 and 1929?]