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  • [Handbill advertising The Edmonton twins: conjoined twins on exhibition at the Adelaide Gallery in the Lowther Arcade, London. The twins were born on 30 January 1855].
  • The tallest man in the world : Herr Winkelmeier, the celebrated Austrian giant, exclusively engaged at the London Pavilion.
  • S. Watson's Grand American Museum 28, Oxford Street : Living curiosities! From all parts of the world ...
  • Enthusiastic reception of Barnum's great and renowned Boston Prize Ladies who have been specially engaged to complete a tour of Great Britain at an enormous outlay : Miss Minnie & Rhoda Holland.
  • [Illustrated ticket to an exhibition of Aztec Lilliputians from Iximaya in central America and the Earthmen or Erdmanniges from under the earth in South Africa. Possibly 1855. Printed in red on white paper].
  • Gruss von Hede.
  • Royal Court Midgets.
  • General Tom Thumb and wife : in the identical costumes worn before her majesty, Queen Victoria, at Windsor Castle, June 24, 1865.
  • [Undated, illustrated handbill (February 1867?) advertising an appearance at Westminster Hall by Robert Tipney, Mr. Chipperfield's Living Skeleton, 26 years old and weighing 49 pounds. ].
  • Die dickste Eiche und Deutschlands dicksten Mann, seht euch in Ostseebad Kellenhusen an : Fünfhundert Pfund und mehr ist Meister Feig schwer.
  • Harold Pyott : the English midget ; aged 34 years, height 23 inches, weight 24 lbs.
  • Horns Assembly Rooms, Kennington : for one day only... Admiral Tom Trump will hold receptions at the above rooms on Monday next, Oct. 11.
  • First tour in Great Britain : during the fair, £1,000 challenge to the world! to produce the equal of Lallo [sic], the greatest living wonder in the world : a native of Lucknow, central India : Lalloo... simply a boy and girl joined together... / James Norman and M.D. Francis, proprietors.
  • Andenken an Emilisa Stoll : die Kopf an Kopf zusammengeachsenen Zwillinge : geb. am 7. Januar 1912 zu Vilbel bei Frankfurt a. M. / Impresario Otto Heinemann, Charlottenburg, Schlüterstr. 12.
  • The Cuban Twins : Guadalupe and Josefina : born in Havana, Cuba, November 15th, 1912.
  • Royal Aquarium : Notice: the manager has the pleasure to announce that he has concluded arrangements with Chang, the great Chinese giant.
  • Glässner's Liliputaner.
  • Hank, world's tallest bartender, 7 ft 8 inches : Terry, world's shortest bartender, 4ft 11 inches : see us at Bradley's 5 and 10, longest bar in the world : Fillmore Street, between Geary & Post, San Francisco.
  • For twelve nights only, commencing Monday, Feb. 23, 1874 : South London Palace, London Road / proprietors, Speedy & Poole.
  • Just arrived from London, and, by permission, will be exhibited here for a few days at Mr. James's Sale Rooms, corner of Lord-street : that most wonderful phenomenom of nature, the Hottentot Venus : the only one ever exhibited in Europe.
  • "Colosso" : age: 19 years, weight: 44 st., height: 6ft, 2 1/2 ins.
  • Royal Aquarium : Chang, the great Chinese giant : just arrived : admission one shilling.
  • London Pavilion : the Egyptian Giant : every evening.
  • The beautiful spotted negro boy / Richardson's New Theatre.
  • The Zeynard's Liliput-Speciality Troupe : [evening dress].
  • Glässner's Liliputaner.
  • Van Albert : der gröbte Mann, 24 Jahre alt : Seppetoni, der kleinste Mann, 29 Jahre alt.
  • Zena, age 32 years.
  • Queen of the Liliputians : height 31 inches, age 26.
  • Imperial Theatre, Westminster : Royal American Midgets : General Mite, the smallest perfect man the world has ever produced now in his 18th year.