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Descriptive catalogue of the new school of hygiene from Dresden, anatomy exhibits from the Liverpool Museum : includes free admission to: the sensational visible glass woman and glass man from behind the iron curtain / Louis Tussaud's Exhibition, Central Beach, Blackpool.
Louis Tussaud's Waxworks (Blackpool, England)Date: [1960?]- Books
Madame Tussaud, waxworker extraordinary / by Anita Leslie & Pauline Chapman.
Leslie, Anita.Date: 1978- Ephemera
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[Undated handbill (August 1885?) advertising Howard's Grand Pavilion of Living Wonders waxwork and fine art gallery (at the Mitcham Fair?), featuring Madame Howard, the African lion-faced lady. She appears to have been a black woman with a beard].
Date: 1885- Pictures
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Maud Temple, a bearded woman at Pickard's Waxwork exhibition, Glasgow. Process print, ca. 1910.
Date: [ca. 1910]Reference: 2045369iPart of: The James Gardiner Collection.- Ephemera
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Open for a few days only : Two grand exhibitions. Madame Hojos has the honour of announcing to the ladies and gentlemen of Wakefield, and its vicinity, she has just arrived from Spain, with a splendid cabinet of ancient & modern wax figures, ... the first and principal group represents the history of Samson ... in addition to the collection of wax figures, the exhibition of the rare Portuguese Dwarf alive, Joseph Cardoso Pereira.
Date: [between 1822 and 1832?]- Books
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Anatomical and physiological description of the late Signor Sarti's new Florentine Venus : together with the causes, symptoms, and treatment of the diseases of the principal organs / by W. Mawhinney.
Mawhinney, W.Date: [between 1849 and 1854?]- Books
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Signor Sarti's celebrated Florentine anatomical Venus : together with numerous smaller models of speical interest to ladies, showing the marvellous mechanism of the human body.
Date: [between 1847 and 1854]- Books
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Signor Sarti's Florentine anatomical models : Popular description of two full-length figures, Venus & Adonis, illustrative of the anatomy of the human frame.
Date: [1850?]- Books
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Anatomical and physiological description of the late Signor Sarti's new anatomical model, : together with the causes, symptoms, and treatment of the diseases of the principal organs. / By W. Mawhinney, surgeon.
Mawhinney, W.Date: [between 1849 and 1854?]- Books
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Signor Sarti's Florentine anatomical models. : Popular description of two full-length figures, Venus & Adonis, illustrative of the anatomy of the human frame.
Date: [1850?]- Pictures
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Crusade against sexually transmitted disease by visiting the Museo Roca in Spain. Colour lithograph by Museo Roca, 193- (?).
Date: [between 1930 and 1939?]Reference: 996784i- Ephemera
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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 ...
Date: [1896]- Ephemera
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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 ...
Date: [1896]- Books
Opera di cera / Kelley Swain.
Swain, KelleyDate: 2014- Books
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At Mrs. Salmon's Royal Wax-work, in Fleet-Street.
Mrs. Salmon's Royal Wax-Work (London, England)Date: [1785?]- E-books
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Living pictures, missing persons : mannequins, museums, and modernity / Mark B. Sandberg.
Sandberg, Mark B., 1958-Date: c2003- Books
Ephemeral bodies : wax sculpture and the human figure / edited by Roberta Panzanelli ; with a translation of Julius von Schlosser's "History of portraiture in wax".
Date: [2008], ©2008- Books
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The manners and customs of all nations; also, remarkable biographies, notable histories, eccentric sects, singular inventions, natural curiosities, mystical sciences, extraordinary buildings, wonderful animals, etc. Being a compendium of universal information ... / By the Rev. John Platts.
Platts, John, 1775-1837.Date: [1827]- Pictures
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The beheading of Juan de Padilla and his associates in the market place of Villalar in 1521. Wood engraving by T.C. Capúz after A. Gisbert Pérez.
Gisbert, Antonio, 1834-1901.Date: [1867?]Reference: 43453i- Pictures
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The Old (now 'La Specola') and New Observatories, Florence, Italy. Reproduction of a pen drawing by A. Pochini.
Date: 1979Reference: 17679i- Pictures
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The Royal Naval Exhibition at Chelsea: exhibits and visitors. Wood engraving by R. Taylor & Co., ca. 1900 (?).
Date: 1900Reference: 548106i- Pictures
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Edward Bamfield, a giant, and John Coan, a dwarf. Engraving by J. Roberts, 1771, after B. Rackstraw.
Rackstrow, Benjamin, -1772.Date: May 4th. 1771Reference: 2288i