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  • Spanish soldiers returning from the fighting line : the above picture shows wounded Spanish soldiers being conveyed to the hospital during the fighting now taking place at Melilla between the Spanish troops and the Moorish tribesmen.
  • Miss Crachami, the Sicilian dwarf exhibiting at 22 New Bond-street.
  • [Two newspaper cuttings (31 May 1871 and 1 June 1871) advertising the Wonderful Two-Headed Nightingale at Willis's Rooms, King Street, St James's, London.].
  • Highland dwarfs.
  • Capriton tablets.
  • Secrets of good health. XII, The white man's burden : effectual exercises / by Sir W. Arbuthnot Lane, Bart., C.B.
  • Flatulence is not merely relieved, but cured by being prevented, through taking Tablones.
  • [Article from the Revue internationale de clinique et de thérapeutique (pages 487-8 - no date) entitled: Curiosités médico-chirurgicales : un cyclope humain - a single eyed infant, also lacking a nose].
  • [Newspaper cutting (October 1887?) "Bow Street : a giant in trouble" about 7' 5" James Patrick Folly's arrest and trial for drunken assault on a police officer in Tottenham Court Road].
  • [1878 newspaper report of the funeral of William Campbell, the Scottish Giant at Jesmond Cemetary].
  • The Nic-nac; or, Literary cabinet. No.158, Saturday, January 7, 1826. Vol. IV. Beards.
  • [Article (Saturday 4 August 1888) entitled: A chronicle of curious events. 6th August 1709 : Oliver Cromwell's 7' 6" porter Daniel was committed to Bedlam, having gone mad reading texts of "speculative divinity". He had been givien a bible by Nell Gwyn].
  • In use 100 years : The Poor Man's Friend or ointment of many virtues ; Pilula Antiscrophula or alterative pills.
  • A soverign remedy.
  • Remarkable characters : [Peter Williamson].
  • [Undated newspaper cutting (September 1886) advertising an appearance by a giant (3 feet tall), 1 year old baby at the Albert Palace, Battersea, London].
  • A skirmish on the railway line in Manchuria : a Russian hospital train collecting the wounded (from a sketch by a Russian artist-correspondent).
  • The Luminous Woman : the mystery of Anna Monaro / from the article by Signor Giocondo Protti, the Italian physicist.
  • [Article from the Revue internationale de clinique et de thérapeutique (pages 487-8 - no date) entitled: Curiosités médico-chirurgicales : un cyclope humain - a single eyed infant, also lacking a nose].
  • Indigestion with constipation and flatulence are cured and prevented from recurring by removing the cause that is, by taking Tablones : "they remove the cause".
  • The Infant's Preservative : for complaints in the bowels of infants, as wind, gripes, convulsions, &c. for preventing the tooth fever, and rendering the operation of dentition easy and free from danger, for preventing the rickets, and for laying the foundation of a good constitution / prepared by John Atkinson.
  • [Newspaper cutting (1865?) about appearances by Tom Thumb, Commodore Nutt and Minnie Warren at St. James's Hall].
  • The cabinet of curiosities, or wonders of the world displayed. No.15, Wybrand Lolkes, the Dutch Dwarf.
  • In use 100 years : The Poor Man's Friend or ointment of many virtues ; Pilula Antiscrophula or alterative pills.
  • With the field hospitals of the Italians : illustrated from direct photographic views obtained in Tripoli, November, 1911.
  • [Newspaper cutting, "A soft snap" (in the series 'snap-shots') featuring a cartoon and a Living Skeleton and a Wild Man of Borneo talking about a Two-Headed Man. ].
  • [Newspaper cutting (1887?) "An Irish giant in court" about 7' 5" James Patrick Folly's arrest and trial for drunken assault on a police officer in Tottenham Court Road].
  • With the field hospitals of the Italians : illustrated from direct photographic views obtained in Tripoli, November, 1911.
  • In future CICFA will be known as "Mother's Advice".
  • Calvert's Curative Powder.