[Undated handbill (Easter week, 1898?) advertising an exhibition of Madame Babault, the real Lobster-Clawed Lady, with hand and feet deformities approximating lobster / crab claws].

[Undated Victorian handbill advertising Mrs. E. Farmer, of Wantage, Berkshire, "the largest woman in existence" weighing 24 stone, on exhibition at 194 The Strand, London].

[Undated handbill (printed in Piccadilly by Percival) advertising an exhibition of a 7' 2" Lapland Giantess and her companion at Saville House, Leicester Square, London].

Handbill (Sept. 1856) advertising the exhibition of an Algerian youth (13 years old) with 2 faces at the Prince of Wales Bazaar, Regent Street, London.

[Undated handbill (printed in Newington by Perry) advertising an exhibition of a 7' 2" Lapland Giantess and her companion at Saville House, Leicester Square, London].

[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].

[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. ].

[Undated handbill (November 1885?) advertising an appearance at the Albert Palace, London by "little people" Commodore Foote (CHarles Nestel) and his sister Eliza (the Fairy Queen)].

[Undated handbill advertising an exhibition of the dwarf, Princesse Maria, accompanied by La Belle Vénitienne at the Salon des Deux Extrêmes at Champ-de-Foire. ].

[Small handbill advertising an appearance by Che Mah, the celebrated Chinese Dwarf, the smallest man in the world at the Queen's Arms, High Street, Islington (December 1868?)].

[Undated handbill (June 1894?) advertising Madame Howard, the African lion-faced lady at 199 Borough, London. She appears to have been a black woman with a beard].

[Handbill on orange paper advertising appearances by Senorita Anita (The Tiger Lady) and her brother, Robinson (The Bear Boy) at the Royal Aquarium, London (27 October 1886?)].

[Undated handbill (1891? printed in Glasgow) advertising an exhibition of the conjoined twin, Lalloo, a 17 year old Indian boy and his twin (growing out of his breastbone)].

[Undated Victorian handbill (Bristol, 1853?) advertising an appearance by Sarah Ann Gallant of Great Yarmouth, 7 years old, 8 stone 7 pounds, with a head 48 inches in circumference].

[Undated Victorian handbill (London, 1855?) advertising an appearance by Sarah Ann Gallant of Great Yarmouth, 7 years old, 8 stone 7 pounds, with a head 48 inches in circumference].

[Undated handbill (1886) advertising an appearance by a giant (3 feet tall), 1 year old baby at the Albert Palace, Battersea, London ("Every one should see the giant baby")].

[Undated handbill (1874) for an exhibition of Andree & Son, or the Kostroma people : "Two human beings with dogs' heads" at the South London Palace. Printed on white paper].

[Undated handbill (August 1885?) advertising Howard's Grand Pavilion of Living Wonders featuring Madame Howard, the African lion-faced lady. She appears to have been a black woman with a beard].

[Undated handbill (1874) for an exhibition of Andree & Son, or the Kostroma people : "Two human beings with dogs' heads" at the South London Palace. Printed on green paper].

[Undated handbill (about 1874?) for Crecraft's Exhibition at the Agricultural Hall (London, England) featuring "Mr. and Mrs. Tommy Dodd, the smallest people living, the king and queen of the Lilliputians"].

[Undated handbill (May 1871?) advertising an appearance by Miss C. Heenan, the Great American Prize Lady, weighing 40 stone at the age of 22, at The Universum, 369 Oxford Street, London].

[Victorian handbill (May 24th 1852) advertising 21 year old Madame Fortunne of Geneva and her 4 inch long, bushy, black beard, on exhibition at Linwood Gallery, Leicester Square, London. ].

[Small, undated handbill (Febuary 1853?) printed in black on yellow paper advertising "Kaffir war, the wonder of the ace, the last of the race" at Smith's, 63 Red Lion Street, Holborn, London].

[Undated yellow handbill (London, December 1884?) advertising an appearance by Harvey's Midges: Princess Lottie, Prince Midge, Miss Jennie Worgen, General Tot and Mlle. Lottie Adelina de Lara,  child pianist, at the Piccadilly Hall, London].

[Undated white handbill (London, December 1884?) advertising an appearance by Harvey's Midges: Princess Lottie, Prince Midge, Miss Jennie Worgen, General Tot and Mlle. Lottie Adelina de Lara,  child pianist, at the Piccadilly Hall, London].

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