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  • [Leaflet advertising an appearance by James Paine, the Infant Hercules at St. James's Hall, Piccadilly with the British Tom Thumb, "the smallest man in the world"].
  • Look! Look! Startling attractions : Monday, December 6th, 1886, and every evening : another surprise for London. Important engagement of Pat O'Brien, the great Irish giant and his wife, the renowned German giantess direct from Barnum's circus / Middlesex Music Hall, Mogul Tavern, 167 Drury Lane.
  • The Highland Youth : this youth, whose miraculous powers of double sight have surprised all who have visited him. Exhibits every day from twelve to half-past five, at the Egyptian Hall, Piccadilly ...
  • [Undated newspaper cutting (March 1869) advertising The Nova Scotia Giantess, Anna Swan, the Siamese twins and the Circassian Lady at the Egyptian Hall, Piccadilly, London].
  • [Undated newspaper cutting (March 1869) advertising The Nova Scotia Giantess, Anna Swan, the Siamese twins and the Circassian Lady at the Egyptian Hall, Piccadilly, London].
  • Apothecaries' Hall: an ancient mortar, with details of its decoration. Engraving.
  • Royal Adelaide Gallery : General Tom Thumb's evening concerts.
  • Bushmen children.
  • [Leaflet (1863?) advertising a variety bill at the Criterion Hall of Amusement, Leicester Square, London with 7 foot tall Polish Giantess, Countess Lodoiska headline act].
  • Music for life : musicals, jazz, opera, recitals and more for all the family ; Sunday 7 June 1992 / Crusaid.
  • Music for life : musicals, jazz, opera, recitals and more for all the family ; Sunday 7 June 1992 / Crusaid.
  • Music for life : musicals, jazz, opera, recitals and more for all the family ; Sunday 7 June 1992 / Crusaid.
  • [Leaflet advertising appearances by Captain Ureck, the Hungarian giant vocalist and a bill of many others at the Royal Theatre (Late Weston's) on Holborn, London].
  • [Leaflet advertising appearances by Captain Ureck, the Hungarian giant vocalist and a bill of many others at the Royal Theatre (Late Weston's) on Holborn, London].
  • The Highland Youth is upstairs, first floor, and performs every half-hour from 12 till 6. ... : the truly entitled Double-Sighted Scotch Youth, Louis Gordon M'Kean, only 8 years old! One of the greatest prodigies of the age!.
  • Music for life : musicals, jazz, opera, recitals and more for all the family ; Sunday 7 June 1992 / Crusaid.
  • Music for life : musicals, jazz, opera, recitals and more for all the family ; Sunday 7 June 1992 / Crusaid.
  • The hirsute Kostroma people from the primeval forests of central Russia : the first of their kind ever seen in England.
  • The hirsute Kostroma people from the primeval forests of central Russia : the first of their kind ever seen in England.
  • Music for life : musicals, jazz, opera, recitals and more for all the family ; Sunday 7 June 1992 / Crusaid.
  • Music for life : musicals, jazz, opera, recitals and more for all the family ; Sunday 7 June 1992 / Crusaid.
  • Music for life : musicals, jazz, opera, recitals and more for all the family ; Sunday 7 June 1992 / Crusaid.
  • The Highland Youth is upstairs, first floor, and performs every half-hour from 12 till 6. ... : the truly entitled Double-Sighted Scotch Youth, Louis Gordon M'Kean, only 8 years old! One of the greatest prodigies of the age!.
  • Music for life : musicals, jazz, opera, recitals and more for all the family ; Sunday 7 June 1992 / Crusaid.
  • Music for life : musicals, jazz, opera, recitals and more for all the family ; Sunday 7 June 1992 / Crusaid.
  • The coffin of W.E. Gladstone lying in state in Westminster Hall, attended by five men praying. Drawing by G.B. Scott after A. Kemp Tebby, 1898.
  • Farewell levees of Genl Tom Thumb previous to his final departure for America : positively for a short time only : every day and evening... he is 14 years old, 25 inches high, and weighs only 15 pounds... / Egyptian Hall, Piccadilly.
  • Another surprise for London! : Important engagement of Pat O'Brien, the Great Irish Giant and his wife, the renowned German Giantess direct from Barnum's American Circus : the tallest married couple in the world ...
  • [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. ].
  • Egyptian Hall, open daily from 2 till 5 : The Pygopagi Twins.