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  • [Undated handbill (about 1874?) for Crecraft's Exhibition at the Agricultural Hall (London, England) featuring "Mr. and Mrs. Tommy Dodd, the smallest people living, the king and queen of the Lilliputians"].
  • The English Tom Thumb at the Egyptian Hall Piccadilly, daily, from 2 to 4, evening, 7 to 9 ...
  • 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.
  • Extraordinary attraction! : commencing Tuesday afternoon, Feb. 17th 1885 engagement of the greatest living curiosity the world has ever produced: Miss Millie Christine the Carolina twin : now on her farewell tour, so 'tis your last opportunity of seeing her ... the famous two headed nightingale ... to appear twice daily, in conjunction with Harvey's Midges the smallest people in the world ... / Piccadilly Hall.
  • Farewell proclamation of Uffner's Royal American midgets / Piccadilly Hall.
  • The Pygopagi Twins : the greatest and most astonishing natural phenomenon in the world : opinions of the press ... daily receptions between 2 and 5 p.m. / Egyptian Hall, Piccadilly.
  • The Pygopagi Twins : the greatest and most astonishing natural phenomenon in the world : opinions of the press ... daily receptions between 2 and 5 p.m. Admission 2s 6d. Evenings from 7 to 9 p.m. Admission 1s. / Egyptian Hall, Piccadilly.
  • Commencing Monday, Nov. 22nd, 1880 : the smallest man and woman in the world! Frank Uffner's Midgets ... Miss Lucia Zarate, the smallest woman in the world ... General Mite, the smallest man in the world ... / Piccadilly Hall.
  • Sanatorium for consumptives, in rural surroundings. Photomechanical reproduction, 1903.
  • The secretes of the reverend Maister Alexis of Piemont [pseud.? i. e. Girolamo Ruscelli?] Containing excellent remedies against divers diseases, woundes, and other accidentes, with the manner to make distillations, parfumes, confitures, dyinges, colours, fusions, and meltinges. A worke well approved, verye profitable and necessarie for everye man. Newely corrected and amended, and also somewhat enlarged in certaine places, whiche wanted in the fyrst edition / Translated oute of Frenche into Englyshe, by William Warde.
  • [Handbill advertising the exhibition of J.J. Brice].
  • [Handbill advertising the exhibition of J.J. Brice].
  • Westminster Hall: fire-fighters preventing the fire of 1834 from entering the hall. Coloured lithograph, 1834.
  • [Undated handbill (June 1886?) advertising an exhibition of "King Theebaw's Burmese sacred family" at the Piccadilly Hall, London].
  • [Handbill (December 1883) advertising the exhibition of "The Amezen Queen and General Mite Tiny" at the Agricultural Hall fair (London) ].
  • [Leaflet advertising appearances by The Lancashire Prodigy, a male child with 2 bodies and 1 head at the Egyptian Hall, Piccadilly, London. Born 27 May 1837].
  • [Leaflet advertising appearances by The Lancashire Prodigy, a male child with 2 bodies and 1 head at the Egyptian Hall, Piccadilly, London. Born 27 May 1837].
  • Barber-Surgeons' Hall, Monkwell Street, London: the facade. Process print.
  • [Small, undated handbill printed in red on yellow paper advertising Japanese Tommy at St. James's Hall, Piccadilly, London].
  • Barber-Surgeon's Hall, Monkwell Street, London: the facade. Engraving.
  • Apothecaries' Hall, Blackfriars Lane: the courtyard. Pen and ink drawing with wash.
  • Apothecaries' Hall, Blackfriars Lane, London: the facade. Drawing.
  • A meeting at Exeter Hall on the abolition of the slave trade. Engraving by H. Melville after T.H. Shepherd, ca. 1841.
  • 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.
  • Pleasing phenomenon : a nyctalopess, from Witham in Essex at Brooke's Menagerie, no. 242, Piccadilly ...
  • [Undated handbill (June 1886?) advertising an exhibition of "King Theebaw's Burmese sacred family". "Piccadilly Hall" has been overprinted with "Royal Aquarium"].
  • Barber-surgeons' Hall, Monkwell Street, London: the entrance to the hall, with elaborate carving above the doors. Engraving, 1816.
  • [Undated yellow handbill (London, December 1884?) advertising an appearance by Harvey's Midges: Princess Lottie, Prince Midge, Miss Jennie Worgen, General Tot and Mlle. Lottie Adelina de Lara, child pianist, at the Piccadilly Hall, London].
  • [Undated white handbill (London, December 1884?) advertising an appearance by Harvey's Midges: Princess Lottie, Prince Midge, Miss Jennie Worgen, General Tot and Mlle. Lottie Adelina de Lara, child pianist, at the Piccadilly Hall, London].
  • [Undated yellow handbill (London, December 1884?) advertising an appearance by Harvey's Midges: Princess Lottie, Prince Midge, Miss Jennie Worgen, General Tot and Mlle. Lottie Adelina de Lara, child pianist, at the Piccadilly Hall, London].