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  • Feuilleton du Temps du 9 novembre 1911 : causerie scientifique : le monde vivant / Edmond Perrier.
  • Feuilleton du Temps du 9 novembre 1911 : causerie scientifique : le monde vivant / Edmond Perrier.
  • [Small leaflet advertising appearances by Roberts's Greatest Phenomenon of the Age (late of the Crystal Palace), a "young lady born without arms", at The Horn of Plenty, Whitecross Street [London?]].
  • [Undated handbill (Easter week, 1898?) advertising an exhibition of Madame Babault, the real Lobster-Clawed Lady, with hand and feet deformities approximating lobster / crab claws].
  • [Undated handbill (Easter week, 1898?) advertising an exhibition of Madame Babault, the real Lobster-Clawed Lady, with hand and feet deformities approximating lobster / crab claws].
  • Missgeburt : In dem marggrävischen Gebiet 2 Meil von Nürnberg : anno 1669, Sonntags den 2 Mai, zu Nachts zwischen 11 und 12 Uhr hat Andreas Hurmans, Stadt Rühehirtens zu Schwabach Eheweib, diss Kind zur Welt geboren ... der Name UDUS gegeben worden.
  • The eighth wonder!! : the celebrated Miss Beffin, miniature painter, will exhibit her wondrous powers, in a commodious booth, during this present fair : a young lady who was born deficient of arms, hands and legs ...
  • The eighth wonder!! : the celebrated Miss Beffin, miniature painter, will exhibit her wondrous powers, in a commodious booth, during this present fair : a young lady who was born deficient of arms, hands and legs ...
  • [Leaflet advertising appearances by 16 month old "plus beau phénomène du 19e siècle" with no arms and one leg at the Foire Au Pain D'Épice in Paris, 17 April 1881. The child was born in Ghent in Belgium].
  • 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.
  • Marc Catozze : born without arms or legs : called the Little Dwarf, was born at Venice, in the year 1741 ... he expired at Paris, the age of 62 ...
  • Undated handbill advertising 'The living wonder', M. Aish with a breast in place of her right leg, showing at London Dairy, 96 The Strand, another (1854) of a 'Limbless child' on show at the Lowther Arcade (London?) and a newspaper cutting of 'An armless bride' (August 1874).
  • Undated handbill advertising 'The living wonder', M. Aish with a breast in place of her right leg, showing at London Dairy, 96 The Strand, another (1854) of a 'Limbless child' on show at the Lowther Arcade (London?) and a newspaper cutting of 'An armless bride' (August 1874).
  • Le sieur Antonio Merretti : born without arms.
  • [Leaflet advertising appearances by Martha Bagshaw, the American lady born without hands or ams (Bartholomew Fair 1817?). ].
  • [Leaflet advertising appearances by Miss Honeywell, an American lady born without hands, at 32 Piccadilly, London (1811?)].
  • Armetro, the armless musician.
  • Armetro, the armless musician.
  • 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 ...
  • 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 ...
  • [Small card advertising appearances by a "Three Legged Child" (illustrated) at the Cosmorama Rooms, 209 Regent Street, London].
  • [Leaflet advertising performances by a man with no arms at the Coach and Horses at Charing Cross. from one of valerius's bills originally printed in 1716].
  • [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].
  • This is to acquaint the curious in general, that there is to be seen, from two in the afternoon, till nine in the evening, without loss of time : at the Crown in High-Street, Canterbury, the surprising Warwickshitre young lady, Miss Hawtin, from Coventry ...
  • By authority : at the Talbot-Inn, near the may-pole in the Strand, is now to be seen the High German performer, born without arms.
  • This is to acquaint the curious in general, that there is to be seen, from two in the afternoon, till nine in the evening, without loss of time : at the Crown in High-Street, Canterbury, the surprising Warwickshitre young lady, Miss Hawtin, from Coventry ...
  • By authority : at the Talbot-Inn, near the may-pole in the Strand, is now to be seen the High German performer, born without arms.
  • By authority : at the Talbot Inn, near the maypole in the Strand, is now to be seen the High German performer, born without arms.
  • To the admirers of the wonderful productions of nature : just arrived here, to be seen in a commodious room, from eleven in the morning, till 9 at night, at Mr. Robson's, Market Place, Durham : the famous Miss Baggs from Newfoundland, now twenty years of age, born without arms, and will work with her toes, in as complete a manner as with arms, and hands ...
  • [Leaflet advertising appearances by the 6 month old John Baptist Dos Santos, born with 3 legs, 2 penises and 4 testicles in Portugal 1843 on display at no.56, Quadrant, Regent Street, London].