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  • Julianne Sleebus, a woman with a large beard. Process print, 190-.
  • Designs showing the lower half of the face in various physiognomies and actions. Engraving after C. Le Brun.
  • A bearded elderly man, carrying a prayer wheel and a rosary, in a studio setting.
  • A bearded dandy admiring the ladies through his monocle on 'Buffers Walk' in the public gardens. Coloured wood engraving by W.H. Harrison.
  • Wonderland Whitechapel Road (next St. Mary's Station) ... Whit Monday May 25th and during the week : Great attractions entire change ... Rabbi Joselman ... Mr. A. Broadhurst the surprise of the Chicago exhibition, with a beard over 7 feet long and a moustache 3 feet in length : Wonderful living freak of nature, the armless Midget Lady stands only 32 inches in height, born without hands or arms, and goes through a marvellous performance with her feet ...
  • An Indian man wearing many beads, and carrying a begging bowl and an umbrella, in a studio setting. Photograph, ca.1900.
  • A bearded old man; representing old age. Stipple engraving, 19th century.
  • Opening of the Fréjus Rail Tunnel: a group of soldiers with false moustaches and beards stand with swords, a mace and a furled flag. Wood engraving by C.J.B. (?) after R. Linklater, 1871.
  • Julianne Sleebus, a woman with a large beard. Process print, 190-.
  • A man and woman of the Toda tribe standing in a photographic studio, with a dog lying at their feet.
  • A group of bearded men sitting on the ground.
  • An Indian man wearing elaborate jewellery and make-up, squatting in front of a small table on which is a shrine, perhaps in a temple. Photograph, ca.1900.
  • Now exhibiting at 432, West Strand : an extraordinary living phenomenon of the female sex, thirty years old, and only four feet high, having a beard six inches in length, with whiskers and moustachios.
  • A group of bearded men sitting on the ground.
  • A bearded man in a bathing-costume requests a light fo rhis cigar from a fully-dressed British couple walking on the beach at Ostend: they are shocked. Coloured lithograph by A. Bry, c. 1850.
  • Designs showing the lower half of the face in various physiognomies and actions. Engraving after C. Le Brun.
  • John Worley, a Greenwich Pensioner, aged 85. Mezzotint by J. Faber after himself, 1709.
  • A bearded old man; representing old age. Stipple engraving, 19th century.
  • An Indian man with long hair, carrying a staff, in a studio setting. Photograph, ca.1900.
  • An Indian man wearing a Parsi string and make-up, squatting on a rug with his hand in a rosary bag, in a studio setting. Photograph, ca.1900.
  • A bearded elderly man, carrying a prayer wheel and a rosary, in a studio setting.
  • Opening of the Fréjus Rail Tunnel: a group of soldiers with false moustaches and beards stand with swords, a mace and a furled flag. Wood engraving by C.J.B. (?) after R. Linklater, 1871.
  • An Italian man with an extremely long bushy beard requesting a barber to confirm his advertised rate of a shave for one penny; the barber is forced to agree. Etching by G. Cruikshank.
  • A man commenting on the beauty of women at a ball, his friend (a dentist) implies that the perfection of their smiles is due to him. Wood engraving after C. Keene, c.1882.
  • [Leaflet advertising bearded lady, Mlle. Melaque from Constantinople, appearing at the Champ de Foire (Paris)].
  • Sir Jonathan Hutchinson. Colour lithograph by Sir L. Ward [Spy], 1890.
  • Clémentine Delait. Process print, 191-.
  • Facts! Amazing facts! : Never exhibited in England, Mademoiselle Lefort, a first rate phenomen ...
  • Maud Temple, a bearded woman at Pickard's Waxwork exhibition, Glasgow. Process print, ca. 1910.
  • A family group in a photographic studio, the women seated, in front of a curtained backdrop.