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  • Julia Pastrana, "the nondescript", advertised for exhibition. Colour woodcut.
  • Julia Pastrana, "the nondescript", advertised for exhibition. Lithograph.
  • Julia Pastrana, "the nondescript", advertised for exhibition. Colour woodcut.
  • Julia Pastrana, "the nondescript", advertised for exhibition. Lithograph.
  • Grand & novel attraction : Miss Julia Pastrana, the nondescript : from the United States and Canada / Regent Gallery, 69, & 71, Quadrant, Regent Street.
  • Two orang-utans wearing clothes and drinking tea. Coloured lithograph by Day & Haghe after W Hawkins.
  • Gen. Tom Thumb : three levees daily at the Regent Gallery, 69 and 71, Quadrant, Regent Street, near Air Street ... / Regent Gallery ; printed by T. Brettell, Rupert Street, Haymarket, Westminster.
  • The wonder of the sea! : The Gymnetrus Northumbricus, or sea-serpent, caught on the Northumbrian Coast, March 26th, 1849 ... is now exhibiting at the Cosmorama Rooms, 209 Regent Street.
  • 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 ...
  • Miss Julia Pastrana, the embalmed nondescript : exhibiting at 191, Piccadilly.
  • Miss Julia Pastrana, the embalmed nondescript : exhibiting at 191, Piccadilly.
  • [Leaflet advertising appearances by A CHILD with two faces, four eyes, two mouths, two noses, two ears, and two chins born on 23 December 1827 on display at 107 Regent Street, London].
  • [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].
  • [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].
  • Under the patronage of the Royal Family : now exhibiting at the Cosmorama, Regent St., Mrs. Eliz. Armitage, the most beautiful and extraordinary lady in Europe!!.
  • Now exhibiting : at the Cosmorama Rooms, No. 290, Regent Street : The Marquis of Liliput! Don Francisco Hidalgo 42 years old - 29 inches high the smallest "man" ever created! / Cosmorama Rooms.
  • [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].
  • Extraordinary exhibition : Cosmorama Rooms, 290, Regent Street : The greatest lady in the world! A rival to the celebrated Daniel Lambert. This phenomen is now exhibiting each day, from 11 1-2 till 5-and 7 till 9 o'clock : Mrs. Elizabeth Armitage of the extraordinary weight of 31 stone 11 lbs. or, 445 pounds ... / Cosmorama Rooms.
  • Grand & novel attraction : Miss Julia Pastrana
  • Under the patronage of Her Majesty and the royal family : Gen. Tom Thumb : three levees daily at the Prince of Wales Bazaar, 209 Regent Street, near Conduit Street ... / Prince of Wales Bazaar.
  • Electricity: a large electro-static generator machine in use in the Colosseum, London, with many condenser jars and four operators. Wood engraving, 1839.