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  • [Leaflet advertising an appearance of a real mermaid and merman (caught off Terra del Fuego). Location not disclosed but printed in Lambeth (Phoenix Printing Office)].
  • [Leaflet (17 April 1881) advertising a Théâtre-Concert en miniature featuring Monsieur and Mademiselle Mouche, the smallest of the "petits personnages" in th world].
  • [Leaflet advertising appearances by Herr Winkelmeier at the London Pavilion in January 1887, appearing with a wide variety of "versatile and comic artistes"].
  • [Folded leaflet about "the life and adventures of the gigantic family" of Queen's County, Ireland. Ann O'Neal is the eldest daughter (also known as Ann O'Neill in other publications). "Gigantic" appears to mean very fat].
  • Eighth wonder! : with due respect to the nobility, gentry, and the public in general of Hull and its vicinity, they are informed, that the wonderful Miss Beffin, in her way to Edinburgh, intends doing herself the honour of being exhibited for a short time, in a commdious room, no.42, Lowgate ...
  • [Leaflet (1880s?) advertising appearances of "The male child without head, face or arms" at King John's Court, Shoreditch].
  • Thursday I'm in love : apero pop rock inde chaque 1er jeudi du mois, 19h30/22h30 : La Mutinerie, 176 rue St. Martin ... / Popingays.
  • [Leaflet advertising appearances by Lucia Zarate and General Mite at the Piccadilly Hall, London ("The midgets, 'two little to earth-quakes')].
  • 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 ...
  • [Leaflet advertising appearances in London by The Brothers Tocci, conjoined twins, born in Locana, Italy in 1877].
  • "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].
  • [Leaflet advertising appearances by Uffner's Royal American Midgets: General Mite and Lucia Zarate at the Piccadilly Hall, London. Shows the Lucia Zarate standing on a table covered by a cloth].
  • [Leaflet advertising appearances by the 8' 2" Lewis Wilkins at the Canterbury Theatre of Varieties in London on Monday 21 January 1901].
  • [Leaflet bearing Field Marshal Tom Thumb's poetical address to the ladies].
  • 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!.
  • Daily from 10 to 7, will be exhibited at the Cosmorama Rooms 209, Regent Street the smallest horse in the world ...
  • [Folded handbill on yellow paper advertising Millie Christine, the Two-Headed Nightingale, and Harvey's Midges (smallest people in the world : Princess Lottie, Prince Midge, Miss Jennie Worgen and General Tot), appearing at the Piccadilly Hall, London, 17 February 1885].
  • [Folded leaflet (turquoise paper - copies on purple paper exist) advertising appearances of 'The Pygopagi Twins', Josepha and Rosalie Blazek, conjoined twins, in some sort of performance at the Egyptian Hall, Piccadilly, London, in late 1880. The "Bohemian" twins were under the patronage of the Empress of Austria and Queen of Hungary, Crown Prince Rudolf of Austria and other distinguished personages. The twins both died at the age of 45. ].
  • American Jack : the Frog Man... : American Museum, 8 Catherine Street, Strand, W.C. : manager: M. Pollock.
  • Highlands of Brazil Sanatorium, São Paulo. Handbill.
  • [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].
  • An orange tree, advertising concentrated orange juice as beneficial to children. Colour lithograph after Eileen Evans.
  • [Undated handbill (December 1881) for the Royal Aquarium advertising Farini's (William Hunt) wonder of wonders, the tattooed Captain Georges Costentenus and the Leopard Boy].
  • 222, Piccadilly : just arrived from Paris, an immense French giant, who has excited the greatest astonishment in that capital : measures seven feet four inches ...
  • [Leaflet advertising Captain Montgomery's Family "Just arrived in England" from St. John's, Newfoundland, whose 3 children were all born with"hands and feet in the shape or form of a crab." They were exhibited in the New Cut, Lambeth 10 November 1883, by manager, James Paine].
  • [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].
  • The Fairy Queen : now exhibiting at the Cosmorama Rooms, 209, Regent Street : the wonder of the age, and smallest child in the world, fourteen months old, sixteen inches high and weighs only four pounds!.
  • [Leaflet advertising appearances by A CHILD with two faces, four eyes, two mouths, two noses, two ears, and two chins born on 23 December 1827 on display at 107 Regent Street, London].
  • [Leaflet advertising appearances by "The Lilliputian Family" (the Brockstedt family) and General Tom Thumb at Davidge's Royal Surrey Theatre, Kennington Road, London in a ' ballet d'action'].
  • [Folded leaflet about "the life and adventures of the gigantic family" of Queen's County, Ireland. Ann O'Neal is the eldest daughter (also known as Ann O'Neill in other publications). "Gigantic" appears to mean very fat].