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  • A black boy with white skin-markings (leukoderma), advertised for exhibition. Colour line block.
  • A black boy with white skin-markings (leukoderma), advertised for exhibition. Colour line block.
  • The cabinet of curiosities, or wonders of the world displayed. No.5, The Spotted Negro Boy.
  • The cabinet of curiosities, or wonders of the world displayed. No.5, The Spotted Negro Boy.
  • On Wednesday morning last died, at the house of Mr. Richardson, Horsemonger-lane, Southwark, aged four year and nine months, George Alexander, the late celebrated and surprising spotted West Indian ...
  • On Wednesday morning last died, at the house of Mr. Richardson, Horsemonger-lane, Southwark, aged four year and nine months, George Alexander, the late celebrated and surprising spotted West Indian ...
  • Eagle tavern, City Road : Easter Monday, and during the week, to be seen alive, the beautiful Giraffe Girl, with a fine cosmoramic view of the Thames Tunnel. Admittance sixpence only.
  • Eagle tavern, City Road : Easter Monday, and during the week, to be seen alive, the beautiful Giraffe Girl, with a fine cosmoramic view of the Thames Tunnel. Admittance sixpence only.
  • 15 Poultry : for a short time only: to be seen alive, the beautiful Giraffe Girl, with a fine cosmoramic view of the Thames Tunnel.
  • Wonderful spotted boy : seventeen months old, from the Caribee Islands, in the West Indies : to be seen at no.42, Piccadilly, opposite St. James' Churc. He is the progeny of negroes, on whose body is a display of the wonderful works of God ...
  • For a short time, the beautiful Spotted Girl ...
  • 251, Regent-St. nearly opposite the Argyll Rooms : to be seen daily, the beautiful Giraffe Spotted Girl ... Miss Fabian is most curiously spotted, equal to the giraffe ...
  • 251, Regent-St. nearly opposite the Argyll Rooms : to be seen daily, the beautiful Giraffe Spotted Girl ... Miss Fabian is most curiously spotted, equal to the giraffe ...
  • 251, Regent-St. nearly opposite the Argyll Rooms : to be seen daily, the beautiful Spotted Girl ... Miss Fabian is most curiously spotted ...
  • For a short time, the beautiful Spotted Girl ...
  • The Royal London Bazaar, Gray's Inn Road : now exhibiting, the Spotted Child ... Miss Fabrian was born in Hampshire is two years & a half old, curiously spotted all over ...
  • Wonderful spotted boy : seventeen months old from the Caribbee islands, in the West Indies : to be seen at no.41, Strand, near Messrs. Couts & Co. bankers : he is the progeny of negroes, on whose body is a display of the works of God, being beautifully covered by a diversity of spots of the most beautiful black and transparent brown and white.
  • The beautiful spotted negro boy / Richardson's New Theatre.
  • [Undated handbill (December 1881) for the Royal Aquarium advertising Farini's (William Hunt) wonder of wonders, the tattooed Captain Georges Costentenus and the Leopard Boy].
  • [Undated handbill (December 1881) for the Royal Aquarium advertising Farini's (William Hunt) wonder of wonders, the tattooed Captain Georges Costentenus and the Leopard Boy].
  • [Newspaper cutting titled: New wonders at the Royal Aquarium (November 1881?) in Mr. Farini's (William Hunt) Gallery. These are Captain Georges Costentenus and the Leopard Boy].