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  • Poster: The hirsute Kostroma people...
  • Barbara van Beck, a hirsute woman. Mezzotint.
  • Barbara van Beck, a hirsute woman. Mezzotint.
  • Barbara van Beck, a hirsute woman. Etching, 1813.
  • Barbara van Beck, a hirsute woman. Etching, 1813.
  • Barbara van Beck, a hirsute woman. Line engraving.
  • Barbara van Beck, a hirsute woman. Etching by R. Gaywood, 1656.
  • Barbara van Beck, a hirsute woman. Stipple engraving by G. Scott.
  • The hirsute Kostroma people from the primeval forests of central Russia : the first of their kind ever seen in England.
  • The hirsute Kostroma people from the primeval forests of central Russia : the first of their kind ever seen in England.
  • [Leaflet advertising bearded lady, Mlle. Melaque from Constantinople, appearing at the Champ de Foire (Paris)].
  • Gruss von Hede.
  • [Handbill advertising appearances by Madame Polonawsky, the Living Russian Bearded Lady (Albert Palace, 15 February 1886)].
  • [Illustrated handbill advertising appearances by Madame Polonawsky, the Bearded Lady (Albert Palace, 15 February 1886)].
  • [Leaflet advertising an exhibition of the mummified corpse of Julia Pastrana at the Burlington Gallery, 191 Piccadilly, London (1862?)].
  • Gruss von Hede.
  • Now exhibiting at 432, West Strand : an extraordinary living phenomenon of the female sex, thirty years old, and only four feet high, having a beard six inches in length, with whiskers and moustachios.
  • Facts! Amazing facts! : Never exhibited in England, Mademoiselle Lefort, a first rate phenomen ...
  • Facts! Amazing facts! : Never exhibited in England, Mademoiselle Lefort, a first rate phenomen ...
  • Facts! Amazing facts! : Never exhibited in England, Mademoiselle Lefort, a first rate phenomen ...
  • Now exhibiting at 432, West Strand : an extraordinary living phenomenon of the female sex, thirty years old, and only four feet high, having a beard six inches in length, with whiskers and moustachios.
  • [Leaflet advertising exhibition of the curious history of Julia Pastrana, "The Baboon Lady" and the live two-in-one, or, double-bodied boy at Dr. Kahn's Museum. The boy is shown in the illustration. Julia Pastrana was also giving 'levees' at the Regent Gallery 3 times a day].
  • Madame Delait en promenade avec son chien.
  • Madame Delait en promenade avec son chien.
  • [Leaflet advertising exhibition of the curious history of Julia Pastrana, "The Baboon Lady" and the live two-in-one, or, double-bodied boy at Dr. Kahn's Museum. The boy is shown in the illustration. Julia Pastrana was also giving 'levees' at the Regent Gallery 3 times a day].
  • ABNORMALITIES: TWO MEN WITH HAIRY FACES
  • ABNORMALITIES: Woman with body and facial ha
  • Barbara van Beck. Oil painting, ca. 1650.
  • Barbara van Beck. Oil painting, ca. 1650.
  • Barbara van Beck. Oil painting, ca. 1650.