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  • 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.
  • The Crystal Palace from the Great Exhibition, installed at Sydenham: sculptures of prehistoric creatures in the foreground. Colour Baxter-process print by G. Baxter, 1864(?).
  • [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].
  • 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.
  • Crowds at Greenwich Fair, watching performers in booths with drums, whips, etc: a mounted policeman moves through the throng. Wood engraving.
  • Anatomy lessons at St Dunstan's. Oil painting by J.H. Lobley, 1919.
  • Anatomy lessons at St Dunstan's. Oil painting by J.H. Lobley, 1919.
  • Anatomy lessons at St Dunstan's. Oil painting by J.H. Lobley, 1919.
  • Zulu Kafirs, St. George's Gallery ...
  • Zulu Kafirs, St. George's Gallery ...
  • Lambeth Female Orphan Asylum (formerly Beddington Park): view of the grounds. Etching by Flemming after T. Allom.
  • Reach out and touch : people living with HIV and AIDS : procession with flowers : Sunday 23rd August 1992 : Speakers Corner, Hyde Park, London ... for a world without discrimination / Brent HIV Centre, Kiss FM.
  • Crowds at Greenwich Fair, watching performers in booths, eating, etc.: the twin domes of Greenwich Hospital are visible in the background. Wood engraving by [I.B.] after Findlay.
  • King's College (London) medical students visiting the Parke, Davis & Co. Laboratories, Hounslow. Photograph, 1925.
  • King's College Medical School students visiting the Parke, Davis & Co. Laboratories, Hounslow. Photograph, 1924.
  • 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.
  • Decorate this plaque to celebrate the life of someone you have lost : The Wall of Love : Hyde Park, London : Saturday June 4th & Sunday June 5th 1994 / The Terrence Higgins Trust.
  • Decorate this plaque to celebrate the life of someone you have lost : The Wall of Love : Hyde Park, London : Saturday June 4th & Sunday June 5th 1994 / The Terrence Higgins Trust.
  • King's College (London) medical students visiting the Parke, Davis & Co. Laboratories, Hounslow. Photograph, 1927.
  • Two children are brought to the nurses of the Asylum for Female Orphans, Lambeth, London. Etching.
  • [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].
  • The Royal Hospital, Chelsea: aerial view of the building and grounds looking from the Surrey side of the busy river. Coloured engraving by T. Bowles the younger after himself.
  • The Royal Hospital, Chelsea: aerial view of the building and grounds looking from the Surrey side of the busy river. Coloured engraving by T. Bowles the younger after himself.
  • The Royal Hospital, Chelsea; and the Rotunda at Ranelagh: viewed from the Surrey bank with boats on the river. Coloured engraving.
  • 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.
  • [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].
  • London, seen from beside Flamsteed House in Greenwich park. Lithograph by T. S. Boys after himself, 1842.