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  • [Undated newspaper cutting (early 19th century?) about Dock, the Wild Indian Venus, a Brazilian of the Butucudos tribe with a lower lip plate and ear tips resting on her shoulders, to be seen "at the Crown Hotel". ].
  • There is beauty in a hand free from roughness : Snowfire Glycerine Jelly Vanishing.
  • [Newspaper cutting (from the Pictorial Times) showing the Presentation of Tom Thumb to the Queen (mid 1840s?)].
  • The cabinet of curiosities, or wonders of the world displayed. No.5, The Spotted Negro Boy.
  • CICFA : cures indigestion constipation flatulence acidity.
  • A little bit of history : at just 26 cm tall, the 17-year-old who is about to set a new record.
  • Here he comes, Boys! / Vicky.
  • Feuilleton du Temps du 9 novembre 1911 : causerie scientifique : le monde vivant / Edmond Perrier.
  • The jeopardy of life is immensely increased without such a simple precaution as Eno's Fruit Salt.
  • [Cutting from the Lancet for 6 August 1927 showing an "Ancient Roman statuette exemplifying a case of achondroplastic deformity"].
  • [Newspaper cutting, "Easily rattled" featuring a cartoon of a man talking to a Living Skeleton. ].
  • In future CICFA will be known as "Mother's Advice".
  • CICFA : cures indigestion constipation flatulence acidity.
  • Zulu Kafirs : Exhibition of native Zulu Kafirs, with the sanction of the colonial authorities ... / St. George's Gallery, Hyde Park Corner, Piccadilly, formerly the Chinese Museum (including both galleries).
  • [Newspaper cutting about a 40 stone man, William Ball, known as John Bull who worked for the Colebrook-dale company of ironmasters. ].
  • Just arrived at this place, and to be exhibited in a large and commodious caravan, during the fair : that wonderful American youth, Mr. Leach ... the shortest person in the world!.
  • Sherlock Holmes and the missing box : (with apologies to Dr. A. Conan Doyle).
  • The illustrated London news, no. 3720, vol. CXXXVII Saturday, August 6, 1910 : The cabinet that saves the operator from the evils of x-rays: the King looking at a patient under the x-rays at the London Hospital / drawn by S. Begg.
  • A soverign remedy.
  • "It might have been". : her joy was duty and love was law : for one of the brightest poetic gems. P.T.O.
  • Iberol tablets : control of hypochromic anaemia in just 3 tablets a day.
  • [Newspaper cutting (The Times, 5 May 1934) about a "so-called "luminous woman" of Pirano whose body emits a luminous glow and Dr. Protti's report to the University of Padua].
  • Barnum's new freaks.
  • A hard case : there is now exhibiting in South Castle-street a female, a native of Holland, whose body, with the exception of the face and bust, is encrusted with a hard substance, which grows upon and completely covers the skin. This lady is 37 years of age ... Liverpool Albion.
  • [Newspaper clipping showing the skeletons of Mademoiselle Crachani, a Sicilian dwarf and Patrick O'Brien, the Irish Giant on display at the Royal College of Surgeons].
  • [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].
  • [Newspaper cutting (4 July 1882) advertising the Royal American Midgets: General Mite, his father, E.F. Flynn and Miss Millie Edwards at the Imperial Theatre, Westminster, London].
  • [Newspaper cutting (October 1887?) "Bow Street : a giant in trouble - James Patrick Tolly" about 7' 5" James Patrick Folly's arrest and trial for drunken assault on a police officer in Tottenham Court Road].
  • Feuilleton du Temps du 9 novembre 1911 : causerie scientifique : le monde vivant / Edmond Perrier.
  • At Fawk's booth in the upper Moorfields, is to be seen a miracle of nature, being a woman that has a horn growing on the back part of her head, full 10 inches long ...