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Ephemera
Online
[Undated handbill (June 1894?) advertising Madame Howard, the African lion-faced lady at 199 Borough, London. She appears to have been a black woman with a beard].
Date: 1894
Ephemera
Online
Hans and Gretel : tango midgets from Germany.
Date: [between 1920 and 1929?]
Ephemera
Online
[Undated white handbill (London, December 1884?) advertising an appearance by Harvey's Midges: Princess Lottie, Prince Midge, Miss Jennie Worgen, General Tot and Mlle. Lottie Adelina de Lara, child pianist, at the Piccadilly Hall, London].
Date: 1884
Ephemera
Online
"Com. Nutt" and Minnie Warren.
Date: [between 1860 and 1869?]
Ephemera
Online
London Pavilion, Piccadilly, W. : every evening at 10.45 : the tallest man in the world : Herr Winkelmeier.
Date: [1887?]
Ephemera
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General Tom Thumb and wife, Commodore Nutt and Miss Minnie Warren : in the identical costumes worn before Emperor Louis Napoleon and the Empress Eugenie, at the Palace of the Tuilleries, Nov. 29, 1864.
Date: [1864?]
Ephemera
Online
World's smallest people : Filipino midgets : Juan de la Cruz, Miss Martina de la Cruz : brother and sister.
Date: [1930?]
Ephemera
Online
Fred Roper's wonderful midgets : Fred Roper and Little Lady Godiva : 18 years old, 34 in. high, 29 1/2 lbs weight.
Date: [between 1920 and 1929?]
Ephemera
Online
[Undated handbill (London, 1837?) advertising an appearance by Matthias Gullia, the man in miniature, 2 feet 10 inches, at Cosmorama, 209 Regent Street, London].
Date: 1837
Ephemera
Online
Glässner's Liliputaner.
Date: [1930?]
Ephemera
Online
The Three Del Rios : Madrid, Spain : souvenir, Hamid's Million Dollar Pier, Atlantic City, New Jersey 1938.
Hamid's Million Dollar Pier (Atlantic City, N.J.)Date: 1938
Ephemera
Oversize ephemera (A1). Box ++77.
Ephemera
Online
The Aztec Lilliputians and the Earthmen, or Erdmanniges : grand fashionable exhibitions commencing Tuesday, Dec. 26th, to continue for a short time only ... / Queen's Concert Rooms, Hanover Square.
Date: [1854?]
Ephemera
Online
Samar (Siamese) twins : two boys six years old, joined together for life.
Date: [between 1900 and 1909?]
Ephemera
Online
[Undated handbill advertising an appearance at Davidge's Royal Surrey Theatre (Lambeth, London) by the German Lilliputian Family and General Tom Thumb].
Date: date of publication not identified
Ephemera
Online
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.
Date: [1887?]
Ephemera
Online
Chang, the Chinese giant : Brustad, the giant of Norway. Che-Mah, the Chinese Tom Thumb. Madaree, the real hindoo jadooger. And the midget prince 'Adonis' / Royal Aquarium, Westminster.
Date: [approximately 1880?]
Ephemera
Online
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.
Date: [between 1930 and 1939?]
Ephemera
Online
Wonderful spotted boy : seventeen months old from the Caribbee islands, in the West Indies : to be seen at no.41, Strand, near Messrs. Couts & Co. bankers : he is the progeny of negroes, on whose body is a display of the works of God, being beautifully covered by a diversity of spots of the most beautiful black and transparent brown and white.
Date: [1810?]
Ephemera
Online
General Tom Thumb and wife : in the identical costumes worn before her majesty, Queen Victoria, at Windsor Castle, June 24, 1865.
Date: [1865?]
Ephemera
Online
[Undated handbill (1885?) advertising an appearance by the Sisters Holland, "together weighing nearly half-a-ton. Printed in Leicester. ].
Date: 1885
Ephemera
Online
[Undated Victorian handbill advertising Mrs. E. Farmer, of Wantage, Berkshire, "the largest woman in existence" weighing 24 stone, on exhibition at 194 The Strand, London].
Date: date of publication not identified
Ephemera
Online
Gruss von dem Wundermädchen Bianka aus Italien.
Date: [between 1900 and 1909?]
Ephemera
Online
The Zeynard's Liliput-Speciality Troupe : [evening dress].
Date: [1905?]
Ephemera
Online
Gruss von Krichel's Riesen- und Märchen-Revue.
Date: [between 1920 and 1929?]