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  • Fred Roper and his 20 wonder midgets : Edith Rollason, 19 years, 32 inches high : Jack Bacon, 18 years, 31 inches high.
  • Post card : [2 views of a female midget with a baby next to a carved chair].
  • South London Palace : Boxing night & every evening / Proprietors, E. Poole & H. Ulph, Jun.
  • Ruby Westwood : age 13 yrs., weight 17 st. 4lb : born at Foxton, New Zealand.
  • [Undated handbill (1835?) advertising 'L'anatomie vivante, or Living Skeleton" at the York Hotel, William Square (Liverpool?)].
  • [Faithfully yours, Little Hatch].
  • Egyptian Hall, open daily from 2 till 5 : The Pygopagi Twins.
  • Midgets wedding : George Stoddart, age 32 years, Eva Crane, age 27 years.
  • Fred Roper's midgets : the bridal party : Winnie Yelland, 24 years old, 43 in. high and James McLeod, 26 years old, 5ft. 11in. high.
  • 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.
  • Harry H. Hargrave presents Guadalupe and Josefina Hinojosa : siamese twin girls born grown together in Havana, Cuba, November 15, 1912.
  • Johnny Trunley : the Peckham Fat Boy : age 15 years. Height 5ft. 8in. Weight 36 stone.
  • [Elephantiasis of the legs] : post card.
  • [Newspaper cutting, "Easily rattled" featuring a cartoon of a man talking to a Living Skeleton. ].
  • [Undated handbill (November 1885?) advertising an appearance at the Albert Palace, London by "little people" Commodore Foote (CHarles Nestel) and his sister Eliza (the Fairy Queen)].
  • King of Lilliputians : the original and only Australian General Tom Thumb, the smallest well-formed man in the world... the world-famed court dwarf and jester, Commodore Knott.
  • Henri Cot : the French giant, who would like to marry the tallest English lady whom he may meet.
  • S. Watson's Grand American Museum, 28 Oxford Street : Living curiosities from all parts of the world : Captain Alexander, the giant of giants... [etc.].
  • Smallest and largest red men in the world : Guy Gill, weight 45 lbs, Chauncey Morlan, weight 620 lbs.
  • Royal Aquarium : Chang, the great Chinese giant : admission one shilling.
  • Mr. & Mrs. "General Tom Thumb" in their wedding costume.
  • Samar (Siamese) twins : two boys six years old, joined together for life.
  • Everybody should go and see the beautiful child -- the giant boy, a second Daniel Lambert ... : James Paine, of London, aged 9 years, weighs the enormous weight of 19 stone and a half ...
  • Souvenir of Abomah : the tallest lady in the world.
  • Imperial Theatre, Westminster : Royal American Midgets : Miss Millie Edwards... on Monday, July 3rd.
  • World's smallest people : Filipino midgets : Juan de la Cruz, Miss Martina de la Cruz : brother and sister.
  • Barnum's new freaks.
  • "Krao", the "missing link" : a living proof of Darwin's theory of the descent of man : special lectures, 2.30, 5.30 & 9.30... : all should see her : [seated illustration].
  • The only Liliputian Opera Co. : Lucia Zarate, General Mite, together with the famous midgets.
  • Important notice : one fact is worth twenty arguments, and a fact is that the most pleasing and remarkable exhibition in the known world is now in this town... : to be seen alive, a child with one side perfect while the other side of him is double jointed and a skeleton... also the world's wonder, the female Baby Samson.