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  • British seamen for British ships : the increase of the foreign element in our mercantile marine & the gradual elimination of the British sailor is becoming a grave national danger / The Marine Society.
  • How to get help after air raid damage.
  • British seamen for British ships : the increase of the foreign element in our mercantile marine & the gradual elimination of the British sailor is becoming a grave national danger / The Marine Society.
  • The outline of a bottle, advertising concentrated orange juice as beneficial to children. Colour lithograph after Eileen Evans.
  • Thursday I'm in love : apero pop rock inde chaque 1er jeudi du mois, 19h30/22h30 : La Mutinerie, 176 rue St. Martin ... / Popingays.
  • An orange tree, advertising concentrated orange juice as beneficial to children. Colour lithograph after Eileen Evans.
  • A notice advertising himself by Matthias Buchinger, a phocomelic man. Etching, 1837, in facsimile of a printed notice, 1716.
  • Advertisement for the Inventions Exhibition, South Kensington; with groups of elegant men and women in a London street, within a frame decorated with winged boys and flowers. Engraving, 1885, after F. Bartolozzi.
  • [Undated, illustrated (cutting? leaflet?) about bearded Annie Jones-Elliot, "The Esau Lady"].
  • Thursday I'm in love : apero pop rock inde chaque 1er jeudi du mois, 19h30/22h30 : La Mutinerie, 176 rue St. Martin ... / Popingays.
  • A white liver bird, and messages to people in Liverpool advocating chest x-rays for diagnosis of tuberculosis. Colour lithograph, 1959.
  • British seamen for British ships : the increase of the foreign element in our mercantile marine & the gradual elimination of the British sailor is becoming a grave national danger / The Marine Society.
  • This is to acquaint the nobility, gentry and the curious in general : to be seen ... during the time of the fair, the surprising Italian Dwarf, two feet six inches high, 25 years of age, born without arms, legs, or thighs. Yet has feet and hands.
  • Eagle tavern, City Road : Easter Monday, and during the week, to be seen alive, the beautiful Giraffe Girl, with a fine cosmoramic view of the Thames Tunnel. Admittance sixpence only.
  • Eagle tavern, City Road : Easter Monday, and during the week, to be seen alive, the beautiful Giraffe Girl, with a fine cosmoramic view of the Thames Tunnel. Admittance sixpence only.
  • Always use McDougall's patent self-raising flour / Arthur McDougall, City Corn Mills, Manchester.
  • 15 Poultry : for a short time only: to be seen alive, the beautiful Giraffe Girl, with a fine cosmoramic view of the Thames Tunnel.
  • A changeling child : to be seen next door to the Black Raven, in West Smithfield, during the time of the FAIR, being a living skeleton, taken by a Venetian Galley, from a Turkish vessel in the archipelago ...
  • Must be seen to be believed : Just arrived from Holland : John Allart respectfully informs the inhabitants of this town, that he has just arrived from Holland with Francina Kroone the greatest living wonder! ever exhibited : born at Wyke by Durstede in Netherland, aged 36, years ...
  • The London Restaurant Company (Limited) : Branch No.2, 11 Catherine Street, Strand : under new and special arrangement : the shilling dinner (including attendance) consisting of soup, joint, pastry, vegetables, bread and cheese.
  • The London Restaurant Company (Limited) : Branch No.2, 11 Catherine Street, Strand : under new and special arrangement : the shilling dinner (including attendance) consisting of soup, joint, pastry, vegetables, bread and cheese.
  • To be seen at ... the English Dwarf : this amazing prodigy of nature was born at Wisbech, Cambridgeshire ...
  • Wonderful spotted boy : seventeen months old, from the Caribee Islands, in the West Indies : to be seen at no.42, Piccadilly, opposite St. James' Churc. He is the progeny of negroes, on whose body is a display of the wonderful works of God ...
  • Advertisement : To all gentlemen and ladies . There are newly arriv'd two monstrous girls, being one of the greatest wonders in nature that was ever seen ; they were born with their backs fasten'd to one another, and the passages of their bodies are both one way ...
  • Advertisement : To all gentlemen and ladies . There are newly arriv'd two monstrous girls, being one of the greatest wonders in nature that was ever seen ; they were born with their backs fasten'd to one another, and the passages of their bodies are both one way ...
  • Editto : per avvisi havuti da varie città corrispondenti, li signori Conservatori della Sanità di Ferrara con participazione dell' eminentiss. e reverendiss. sig. Cardinale Durazzo Legato, &c. aggiungono ai luoghi altre volte banditi, e sospesi per occasione di peste, li qui sottonotari. Il tutto con le stesse pene, e conforme agli altri bandi fatti per simil cagione ... 7 Agosto 1636 ... / Borso Calcagnino Giudice de'Saui. Giuliano Tamoni Cane.
  • "Krao", the "missing link" : a living proof of Darwin's theory of the descent of man : special lectures, 2.30, 5.30 & 9.30... : all should see her : [seated illustration].
  • "Krao", the "missing link" : a living proof of Darwin's theory of the descent of man : special lectures, 2.30, 5.30 & 9.30... : all should see her : [seated illustration].
  • "Krao", the "missing link" : a living proof of Darwin's theory of the descent of man : special lectures, 2.30, 5.30 & 9.30... : all should see her : [seated illustration].
  • To the admirers of the wonderful production of nature, to be seen alive at no.99 Holborn Hill : a most astonishing creature, called the Ethiopian Satyr, or Real wild-man of the woods.