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  • On the stage of the Drury Lane Theatre, Comedy is hanged, Tragedy is stabbed, and Sheridan the playwright lies dead drunk as the theatre is given over to animal entertainments. Coloured etching by S. De Wilde, 1808.
  • The ugliest show on Earth / Animal Defenders.
  • The ugliest show on Earth / Animal Defenders.
  • Maxi Schommer.
  • Maxi Schommer.
  • A man exhibiting a counting horse with an unidentified object underneath. Engraving, 1785.
  • A performer wrestling with a trained tiger. Watercolour drawing.
  • Two boys performing as strongmen. Reproduction of a photograph.
  • Barnum's new freaks.
  • A tightrope walker above a clown. Engraving after M. Laroon, 1688.
  • Important notice : one fact is worth twenty arguments, and a fact is that the most pleasing and remarkable exhibition in the known world is now in this town... : to be seen alive, a child with one side perfect while the other side of him is double jointed and a skeleton... also the world's wonder, the female Baby Samson.
  • Important notice : one fact is worth twenty arguments, and a fact is that the most pleasing and remarkable exhibition in the known world is now in this town... : to be seen alive, a child with one side perfect while the other side of him is double jointed and a skeleton... also the world's wonder, the female Baby Samson.
  • The trade unmasked : brutalities in animal training / Our Dumb Friends' League.
  • The trade unmasked : brutalities in animal training / Our Dumb Friends' League.
  • The trade unmasked : brutalities in animal training / Our Dumb Friends' League.
  • The trade unmasked : brutalities in animal training / Our Dumb Friends' League.
  • Always on the move... : Glaxo antibiotic products are inexpensive to stock and always on the move from your shelves ...
  • Chris P. Carrot welcomes you to PETA! / People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals.
  • Chris P. Carrot welcomes you to PETA! / People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals.
  • Chris P. Carrot welcomes you to PETA! / People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals.
  • Miss Rosie (weight 36 stone) holding a bouquet of flowers
  • Ruby Westwood Age 13 years., weight 17st. 3lb, Born at Foxton, New Zealand, riding a large three wheeled bicycle
  • Siegmund Breitbart, a strongman, wearing a Roman helmet. Process print, 192-.
  • Siegmund Breitbart, a strongman, wearing a Roman helmet. Process print, 192-.
  • [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. ].
  • [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. ].
  • A street entertainer holding his performing poodle on a leash. Etching by J.T. Smith, 1816.
  • Drury Lane Theatre, London: royal visitors looking at animals in enclosures. Lithograph by W. Taylor.
  • Tower Records and Mercury Communications present Counter Revolution : a 24 hour charity event : on 1st December come to Tower Records, Piccadilly and help support World AIDS Day.
  • Women enter a large haberdashery shop, some gather outside. Engraving.