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  • An obese woman walking. Collotype after Eadweard Muybridge, 1887.
  • An obese woman walking. Collotype after Eadweard Muybridge, 1887.
  • An obese woman getting up off the ground: three series. Collotype after Eadweard Muybridge, 1887.
  • An obese woman walking. Collotype after Eadweard Muybridge, 1887.
  • An obese woman getting up off the ground: three series. Collotype after Eadweard Muybridge, 1887.
  • [Undated handbill (1885?) advertising an appearance by the Sisters Holland, "together weighing nearly half-a-ton. Printed in Leicester. ].
  • [Undated handbill (May 1871?) advertising an appearance by Miss C. Heenan, the Great American Prize Lady, weighing 40 stone at the age of 22, at The Universum, 369 Oxford Street, London].
  • [Undated handbill (1885?) advertising an appearance by Barnum's Boston Prize ladies (the Sisters Holland?), "weighing together nearly half-a-ton". Printed in Bristol. ].
  • Now exhibiting for a short time, at 122, Fleet Street, City, opposite Punch's office : Just arrived from America the greatest wonder of the world. The great American prize lady, Miss C. Heenan ... heaviest female living, weighing 40 stone ...
  • The great American Prize Lady Miss C. Heenan with her four prize presentation cups : now exhibiting for a short time only at 122, Fleet St, London.
  • [Undated Victorian handbill advertising Mrs. E. Farmer, of Wantage, Berkshire, "the largest woman in existence" weighing 24 stone, on exhibition at 194 The Strand, London].