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  • The ugliest show on Earth / Animal Defenders.
  • The ugliest show on Earth / Animal Defenders.
  • Maxi Schommer.
  • Maxi Schommer.
  • A man exhibiting a counting horse with an unidentified object underneath. Engraving, 1785.
  • A performer wrestling with a trained tiger. Watercolour drawing.
  • Two boys performing as strongmen. Reproduction of a photograph.
  • Barnum's new freaks.
  • A tightrope walker above a clown. Engraving after M. Laroon, 1688.
  • Important notice : one fact is worth twenty arguments, and a fact is that the most pleasing and remarkable exhibition in the known world is now in this town... : to be seen alive, a child with one side perfect while the other side of him is double jointed and a skeleton... also the world's wonder, the female Baby Samson.
  • Important notice : one fact is worth twenty arguments, and a fact is that the most pleasing and remarkable exhibition in the known world is now in this town... : to be seen alive, a child with one side perfect while the other side of him is double jointed and a skeleton... also the world's wonder, the female Baby Samson.
  • The trade unmasked : brutalities in animal training / Our Dumb Friends' League.
  • The trade unmasked : brutalities in animal training / Our Dumb Friends' League.
  • The trade unmasked : brutalities in animal training / Our Dumb Friends' League.
  • The trade unmasked : brutalities in animal training / Our Dumb Friends' League.
  • Always on the move... : Glaxo antibiotic products are inexpensive to stock and always on the move from your shelves ...
  • Chris P. Carrot welcomes you to PETA! / People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals.
  • Chris P. Carrot welcomes you to PETA! / People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals.
  • Chris P. Carrot welcomes you to PETA! / People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals.
  • Miss Rosie (weight 36 stone) holding a bouquet of flowers
  • Ruby Westwood Age 13 years., weight 17st. 3lb, Born at Foxton, New Zealand, riding a large three wheeled bicycle
  • Siegmund Breitbart, a strongman, wearing a Roman helmet. Process print, 192-.
  • Siegmund Breitbart, a strongman, wearing a Roman helmet. Process print, 192-.
  • [Newspaper cutting, "A soft snap" (in the series 'snap-shots') featuring a cartoon and a Living Skeleton and a Wild Man of Borneo talking about a Two-Headed Man. ].
  • [Newspaper cutting, "A soft snap" (in the series 'snap-shots') featuring a cartoon and a Living Skeleton and a Wild Man of Borneo talking about a Two-Headed Man. ].
  • A street entertainer holding his performing poodle on a leash. Etching by J.T. Smith, 1816.
  • Drury Lane Theatre, London: royal visitors looking at animals in enclosures. Lithograph by W. Taylor.
  • Tower Records and Mercury Communications present Counter Revolution : a 24 hour charity event : on 1st December come to Tower Records, Piccadilly and help support World AIDS Day.
  • Women enter a large haberdashery shop, some gather outside. Engraving.
  • A figure with a heart as a head, walking a bending tightrope while holding a long pole; advertising the tenth anniversary benefit for the Gay Men's Health Crisis. Colour offset lithograph by J.M. Folon, 1992.