Freak shows ephemera. Box 3.

  • Ephemera

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Description

Box file containing 100 items of ephemera in acid free sleeves. These include: the male child without head, face or arms, Mlle Marian (Giant), Mlle Melaque (bearded lady), mermaid and merman, Miss Millie Christine (the two-headed Nightingale), Signora Monera (the Electric (or luminous) Woman), Captain Montgomery's Family (Marie, William and Henri - with the hands and feet of a crab), Mlle Mouche, a New Zealand Chief, Commodore Nutt and Minnie Warren, the Gigantic Family (the O'Neal or O'Neill family from Ireland), Nlle Crachani and Patrick O'Brien (the Great Irish Giant), the Infant Hercules, Julia Pastrana (the Baboon Lady), the Double-Bodied Boy, the Petrified Man, the Polish Giantess (Countess Lodoiska), Madame Polonawsky (the Russian Bearded Lady), the Pygopagi Twins, Princess Felicie (Queen of the Lilliputians), Senorita Anita, the Bear Boy, Ernest Shafer, Jennie Wergen, Master Smith (the Yorkshire Giant Youth - 35 stone, age 17), Count Smollenoff (Cosmopolitan Dwarf), a specimen of embalming, Three Legged Child, the Brothers Tocci, Australian General Tom Thumb, General Tom Thumb, Admiral Tom Trump, Johnny Trundley (the Peckham Fat Boy), Frank Uffner's American Midgets (Lucia Zarate and General Mite), the Royal American Midgets (General Mite and Millie Edwards), General Tiny Mite and Chang (the great Chinese Giant), the United Brothers (Siamese twins), Captain Ureck (Hungarian giant vocalist), Unthan (the man without arms), Admiral Van Tromp (the Friesland phenomenon), Waino and Plutaino (wild men from Borneo), the white-hair'd ladies, two chinese ladies (Attoi Whoatoy and Powyuen Guatuoa), Lewis Wilkins (American Goliath), Herr Winkelmeier (the Austrian Giant), Violet-Daisy Hilton (the Brighton Twins) and an Abyssinian Hermit.

Physical description

1 box ; 34 x 33 cm.

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    Closed stores
    EPH499B

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