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  • Hall of the Barber-Surgeons' Company, Monkwell St., London.
  • Barber-Surgeons' Hall, Monkwell Street, London: the facade. Process print.
  • Hall of the Barber-Surgeons' Company, Monkwell St., London: entrance.
  • John Banester giving the visceral lecture at Barber-Surgeons' Hall, London, in 1581. Oil painting by Jack Orr,1913, after an English painter.
  • John Banester giving the visceral lecture at Barber-Surgeons' Hall, London, in 1581. Oil painting by Jack Orr,1913, after an English painter.
  • John Banester giving the visceral lecture at Barber-Surgeons' Hall, London, in 1581. Oil painting by Jack Orr,1913, after an English painter.
  • Barber-surgeons' Hall, Monkwell Street, London: the rear elevation of part of the hall, possibly the courtroom. Engraving, 1800.
  • Barber-surgeons' Hall, Monkwell Street, London: the entrance to the hall, with elaborate carving above the doors. Engraving, 1816.
  • Barber-surgeons' Hall, Monkwell Street, London: the entrance to the hall, with elaborate heraldic carving above the doors. Engraving after T. H. Shepherd, 1830.
  • Barber-surgeons' Hall, Monkwell Street, London: the interior of the hall, with various figures standing and sitting about. Engraving by T. H. Ellis, 1843, after H. Melville.
  • Barber-surgeons' Hall, Monkwell Street, London: the door of the hall, with a uniformed attendant standing to the left. Wood engraving attributed to J. and A. Williams, 1856.
  • Barber-surgeons' Hall, Monkwell Street, London: the entrance to the hall, showing the elaborate carving of the canopy, a lady and child entering. Wood engraving by C. D. Laing, 1845.
  • Barber-surgeons' Hall, Monkwell Street, London: the interior of the Court-Room, with a reception taking place. Wood engraving by J. and A. Williams, 1856.
  • [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"].
  • Barber-Surgeon's Hall, Monkwell Street, London: the facade. Engraving.
  • The English Tom Thumb at the Egyptian Hall Piccadilly, daily, from 2 to 4, evening, 7 to 9 ...
  • 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 ... / Middlesex Music Hall, Mogul Tavern, 167 Drury Lane.
  • Extraordinary attraction! : commencing Tuesday afternoon, Feb. 17th 1885 engagement of the greatest living curiosity the world has ever produced: Miss Millie Christine the Carolina twin : now on her farewell tour, so 'tis your last opportunity of seeing her ... the famous two headed nightingale ... to appear twice daily, in conjunction with Harvey's Midges the smallest people in the world ... / Piccadilly Hall.
  • Farewell proclamation of Uffner's Royal American midgets / Piccadilly Hall.
  • The Pygopagi Twins : the greatest and most astonishing natural phenomenon in the world : opinions of the press ... daily receptions between 2 and 5 p.m. / Egyptian Hall, Piccadilly.
  • The Pygopagi Twins : the greatest and most astonishing natural phenomenon in the world : opinions of the press ... daily receptions between 2 and 5 p.m. Admission 2s 6d. Evenings from 7 to 9 p.m. Admission 1s. / Egyptian Hall, Piccadilly.
  • Commencing Monday, Nov. 22nd, 1880 : the smallest man and woman in the world! Frank Uffner's Midgets ... Miss Lucia Zarate, the smallest woman in the world ... General Mite, the smallest man in the world ... / Piccadilly Hall.
  • Sanatorium for consumptives, in rural surroundings. Photomechanical reproduction, 1903.
  • The secretes of the reverend Maister Alexis of Piemont [pseud.? i. e. Girolamo Ruscelli?] Containing excellent remedies against divers diseases, woundes, and other accidentes, with the manner to make distillations, parfumes, confitures, dyinges, colours, fusions, and meltinges. A worke well approved, verye profitable and necessarie for everye man. Newely corrected and amended, and also somewhat enlarged in certaine places, whiche wanted in the fyrst edition / Translated oute of Frenche into Englyshe, by William Warde.
  • Achievement of arms of the London Barber Surgeons Company. Coloured pencil drawing.
  • Arms of the London Barber Surgeons' Company. Engraving attributed to W. Vaughan, 1677.
  • [Handbill advertising the exhibition of J.J. Brice].
  • [Handbill advertising the exhibition of J.J. Brice].
  • Beards takin off. & registurd! / by Isaac Fac-Totum, barber, peri-wig maker, surgeon, parish clark, scool master, blacksmith, and man-midwife.
  • Westminster Hall: fire-fighters preventing the fire of 1834 from entering the hall. Coloured lithograph, 1834.