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  • "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 : [jungle 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 : [jungle 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 : [jungle illustration].
  • The Fairy Queen : now exhibiting at the Cosmorama Rooms, 209, Regent Street : the wonder of the age, and smallest child in the world! Seventeen months old, sixteen inches high and weighs only four pounds.
  • Wonderful phenomen of nature : just arrived, and to be seen every day at the Lyceum, Strand, the three wonders of the age!!! : Miss Crawley, the beautiful albiness, and her two brothers.
  • 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!.
  • 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!.
  • The Fairy Queen : now exhibiting at the Cosmorama Rooms, 209, Regent Street : universally pronounced the wonder of the age, and smallest child in the world! Twelve months old, sixteen inches high and weighs only four pounds.
  • Just arrived, and may be seen in the Commodious Rooms, 287 Strand : Mrs. Butcher, the celebrated Yorkshire married dwarf : the smallest lady and the greatest wonder of the present age.
  • Hopkin Hopkins : the wonderful and surpising little Welchman.
  • The greatest phenomenon of nature! : To be seen at 238, High Holborn, for a short time only, a child (born alive) with two faces, four eyes, two mouths, two noses, two ears and two chins ... with only one head and body.
  • Now exhibiting at the Cosmorama Rooms, 209, Regent Street : the wonder of the world, Master Esau Battae.
  • Facts! Amazing facts! : Never exhibited in England, Mademoiselle Lefort, a first rate phenomen ...
  • The celebrated Mrs. Weston, six inches shorter than any woman travelling ... : also the Liliputian Dwarf, thirty years of age, and only thrity-two inches high ...
  • [Leaflet advertising appearances by "Two children united from the umbilical chord to the top of the breast bone", born January 1833 and being exhibited at The Rotunda, Blackfriars Road, London].
  • Northern expedition : just arrived from Baffin's Bay, to be seen, at no. 183 Piccadilly (opposite Burlington House,) the only two esquimaux indians, (male and female), brought to England from the frozen regions of the North ...
  • A breast pump manufactured by H. Wright. Wood engraving and letterpress, 18--.
  • [Leaflet advertising the "midgets' return to London": General Mite, his father, E.F. Flynn and Miss Millie Edwards at the Imperial Theatre, adjoining the Royal Aquarium, London (1882?). It has a cartoon of General Mite being arrested by two policemen].
  • [Leaflet advertising appearances by Senorita Anita (The Tiger Lady) and her brother, Robinson (The Bear Boy) at the Royal Aquarium, London (20 February 1886?)].
  • Anatomie vivante, or, the Living Skeleton.
  • [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"].
  • General Tom Thumb : the celebrated American dwarf : exhibiting every day and evening, Egyptian Hall, Piccadilly.
  • [Leaflet advertising appearances by Miss Honeywell, an American lady born without hands, at 32 Piccadilly, London (1811?)].
  • [Illustrated leaflet advertising appearances by "Siamese youths, united brothers", Chang and Eng, at 15 Poultry, London in their 19th year].
  • [Leaflet advertising appearances by Herr Winkelmeier and M. Brunin (French comedian) at the London Pavilion in March 1887].
  • Just arrived from Bullock's Museum, the greatest novelty in Hull : to be seen, at no. 13 Queen-Street, the only two esquimaux indians, ever brought to this kingdom : mal;e and female, from the frozen regions of the North ...
  • [Leaflet advertising appearances by The Lancashire Prodigy, a male child with 2 bodies and 1 head at the Egyptian Hall, Piccadilly, London. Born 27 May 1837].
  • [Leaflet detailing the "Life and history of the great Irish Giant, Patrick O'Brien, his mammoth bride, Christianna, the great German Giantess and their infant son" at Barnard's Amphitheatre, Portsmouth, 31 January 1887].
  • [Leaflet advertising appearances by Herr Unthan, "the man without arms" at the Canterbury Theatre of Varieties, Westminster Bridge Road, London, 25 January 1886. Printed on yellow paper].