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Henri Cot : the French giant, who would like to marry the tallest English lady whom he may meet.
Date: [between 1910 and 1919?]- Ephemera
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Machnow : the Russian giant : the tallest man on Earth : Height, 9ft 2 1/2 inches. Weight, 360 lbs. Age, 28.
Date: [1906?]- 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
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General Tom Thumb and wife : in the identical costumes worn before her majesty, Queen Victoria, at Windsor Castle, June 24, 1865.
Date: [1865?]- Ephemera
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Mr. & Mrs. "General Tom Thumb" in their wedding costume.
Date: [1863?]- Ephemera
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Charles S. Stratton as General Tom Thumb, in his character as Napolean : is 12 years old, 25 inches high and weighs 15 pounds.
Date: [1850]- Ephemera
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John Lester's Lilliputian Ladies : John Lester's Midgets, Tower, Blackpool.
Date: [between 1920 and 1929?]- Ephemera
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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.
Date: [1912?]- Ephemera
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Midgets wedding : George Stoddart, age 32 years, Eva Crane, age 27 years.
Date: [between 1920 and 1929?]- Ephemera
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Mr. Smith's exhibition : to be seen twihin, the Norfolk Giant 17 years of age, 7 feet 2 inches high, and weighs 20 stone, also the African Lady! in her native costume ... also Tom Thumb, the celebrated dwarf, also the extraordinary wonder of the creation, the infant male child & its mother with 2 perfect heads and necks on one body ...
Date: [1849]- Ephemera
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The celebrated Mrs. Weston, six inches shorter than any woman travelling ... : also the Liliputian Dwarf, thirty years of age, and only thrity-two inches high ...
Date: 1811- Ephemera
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Admiral Dot : thirteen years old; twenty-five inches high. Weighs only fifteen pounds.
Date: [1872?]- Books
Monsters, myths, and mechanics : performance of stigmatized identity in the American freak show / Michael Mark Chemers.
Chemers, Michael Mark.Date: 2001- Student dissertations
An interest 'purely medical' : interpretations of deviant bodies from the freak show to the present / Penny Beddoes.
Beddoes, Penny.Date: [2009]- Books
The wonders : lifting the curtain on the freak show, circus and Victorian age / John Woolf.
Woolf, John (Historian)Date: 2019- Books
The Victorian freak show : the significance of disability and physical differences in 19th-century fiction / Lillian Craton.
Craton, Lillian.Date: [2009], ©2009- Pictures
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"Zazo, half woman, half man", at a freak show, being approached by a gay man. Colour process print, ca. 1953.
Date: [ca. 1953]Reference: 2045346iPart of: The James Gardiner Collection.- Ephemera
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Anita, "the living doll" : smallest woman in the world : age 30 years, height 26 inches.
Date: [1912?]- Ephemera
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Martha Cockburn.
Date: [1930?]- Books
Exploring the cultural history of continental European freak shows and 'enfreakment' / edited by Anna Kérchy and Andrea Zittlau.
Date: 2012- Ephemera
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[Newspaper cutting, "Easily rattled" featuring a cartoon of a man talking to a Living Skeleton. ].
Date: date of publication not identified- Ephemera
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[Undated (1876?) illustrated handbill advertising an exhibition of Maximo and Bartola, the Aztec Lilliputians from Iximaya in central America].
Date: date of publication not identified- Ephemera
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[Undated handbill advertising an unparalleled programme of holiday entertainments at Alexandra Palace on Boxing Day].
Date: 19th century- Ephemera
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[Undated handbill (1859?) advertising "The performing and talking fish", on exhibition at 191 Piccadilly, London].
Date: 1859- Ephemera
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The world's smallest man.
Date: [between 1930 and 1939?]