Piccadilly Hall, commencing Monday, Dec. 1, 1884... : the smallest people in the world! All English. First appearance in London : Harvey's wonderful Midges and choir of boy vocalists... two receptions daily... / Piccadilly Hall.

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Piccadilly Hall, commencing Monday, Dec. 1, 1884... : the smallest people in the world! All English. First appearance in London : Harvey's wonderful Midges and choir of boy vocalists... two receptions daily... / Piccadilly Hall. Public Domain Mark. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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Poster, printed in black and red, advertising Harvey's wonderful Midges' performances at the Piccadilly Hall, London in December 1884. The lithographed illustration shows a small man (Prince Midge ? Born July 4, 1869) and a smalll woman (Princess Lottie? Born Jan. 14th, 1868) standing in front of the boy vocalists with another small woman (Miss Jennie Worgen?) standing on the hand of a full grown man with a moustache (Harvey?) behind them. "Aside from the extraordinary exhibition of diminutiveness" there is also promised music, singing in the "midget concert"

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[London], Piccadilly Hall, 1884 (Netherfield : Stafford & Co.)

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1 broadside : illustrations, portraits ; 105 cm

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