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  • Monday, October 8th, 1883 : special engagement of Captain Ureck, the Hungarian giant : the tallest man in the world / Raglan Music Hall, Charlotte St., Blackfriars, Star Music Hall, Abbey St., Bermondsey.
  • The path of the great comet of 1858, will be traced in space, with explanatory remarks / Music Hall, George Street, Edinburgh.
  • Roy and Gus, two music-hall actors, one in drag, converse across a bench. Photographic postcard by Greenfield Bros, 192-.
  • Roy and Gus, two music-hall actors, one in drag, converse across a bench. Photographic postcard by Greenfield Bros, 192-.
  • L'insolite Club présente ses 2 soirées au profit de la lutte contre le sida : "Les Noces Blanches" et "La caravane du Music-Hall".
  • L'insolite Club présente ses 2 soirées au profit de la lutte contre le sida : "Les Noces Blanches" et "La caravane du Music-Hall".
  • [Leaflet advertising appearances by Johnny Trundley, the Peckham Fat Boy at the Royal Standard music hall (opposite Victoria Station, London) with a bill of other acts].
  • [Leaflet advertising appearances by Herr Ernest Schafer and Fraulein Jennie Wergen at the Trocadero Music Hall (18 February 1890?), both dwarfs, with a line up of other acts].
  • Show Bill. Attractions at the Middlesex Music Hall 'Mogul Tavern' 167, Drury Lane on Monday 6 December 1886 includes 'Pat O'Brien, the great Irish Giant and his wife, the renowed German giants.
  • 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.
  • A prompter in a music hall enjoys watching a woman can-can dancer, tells an unpopular man entertainer to get off the stage, and is finally arrested at the request of two dissatisfied men. Process print after Albert Guillaume.
  • 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 direct from Barnum's circus / Middlesex Music Hall, Mogul Tavern, 167 Drury Lane.
  • A disabled soldier has his wooden legs stolen by four Irishmen in a bar. Colour lithograph by H.G. Banks, ca. 1899.
  • Another surprise for London! : Important engagement of Pat O'Brien, the Great Irish Giant and his wife, the renowned German Giantess direct from Barnum's American Circus : the tallest married couple in the world ...
  • Bert Murray in character as a sailor pouring himself a drink. Photographic postcard, 192-.
  • Bert Murray in character as a sailor pouring himself a drink. Photographic postcard, 192-.
  • Bert Murray in character as a sailor. Photographic postcard, 192-.
  • Bert Murray in character as a sailor. Photographic postcard, 192-.
  • A concert hall. Watercolour and crayons by Tomasz Sitkowski, 1976.
  • A doctor goes off gallivanting with two young dancers. Colour process print after by J-A. Faivre, 1902.
  • 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 appearances by Captain Ureck, the Hungarian giant vocalist and a bill of many others at the Royal Theatre (Late Weston's) on Holborn, London].
  • [Leaflet advertising appearances by Captain Ureck, the Hungarian giant vocalist and a bill of many others at the Royal Theatre (Late Weston's) on Holborn, London].
  • [Leaflet (1863?) advertising a variety bill at the Criterion Hall of Amusement, Leicester Square, London with 7 foot tall Polish Giantess, Countess Lodoiska headline act].
  • A musical score against a background of painted red and yellow crosses; advertising a benefit concert in support of World AIDS Day on 1 December 1991 at the Kunsthalle, Bremen. Colour lithograph by Becker Repro Service.
  • A curtained stage from which a keyboard, an arrow, musical notes, a mouth, an eye and various other symbols emanate; an advertisement for a benefit cabaret performance in support of World AIDS Day on 1 December 1993 at the Frankfurter Hof, Mainz. Colour lithograph, 1993.
  • A map of London: showing sites of medical interest in Lambeth, Pimlico, Southwark and Westminster. Coloured lithograph, 1913.
  • A map of London: showing sites of medical interest in Lambeth, Pimlico, Southwark and Westminster. Coloured lithograph, 1913.
  • Lyell Johnson & Fred Groome.