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Freak shows ephemera. Box 2.

[Undated handbill (1848?) noting the exhibition of Joachim Eleizegui, The Spanish Giant, at the Cosmorama Rooms, Regent Street, London].

[Newspaper cutting, "Easily rattled" featuring a cartoon of a man talking to a Living Skeleton. ].

[Newspaper cutting (1871? The Times?) about an appearance of Christina and Millie McCoy, 'The African Twins' or Two-Headed Nightingale (with Anna Swan, the Nova Scotian Giantess and Captain Bates, a Kentucky Giant). They were conjoined twin girls, born in North Carolina in 1851. Their mother was a slave].

Handbill (Sept. 1856) advertising the exhibition of an Algerian youth (13 years old) with 2 faces at the Prince of Wales Bazaar, Regent Street, London.

[Undated handbill advertising "the Aïssaouas' snake and scorpion eaters" ].

[Handbill advertising appearances from Chang, the great Chinese Giant, and chung Mow, the tartar rebel dwarf, at the Egyptian Hall (Piccadilly, London)].

[Undated handbill (October 1898) advertising an exhibition of The Australian Juvenile Giant Family, Clara, Hercules Tom and Anna Snell].

[Undated handbill (after 1876) for a 3 night variety show featuring Capt. Austin (mimic and ventriloquist) and Amy Dot, the Fairy Queen].

[Undated handbill (1886) advertising an appearance by a giant (3 feet tall), 1 year old baby at the Albert Palace, Battersea, London ("Every one should see the giant baby")].

[Undated newspaper cutting (March 1869) advertising The Nova Scotia Giantess, Anna Swan, the Siamese twins and the Circassian Lady at the Egyptian Hall, Piccadilly, London].

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[Undated handbill (1848?) noting the exhibition of Joachim Eleizegui, The Spanish Giant, at the Cosmorama Rooms, Regent Street, London].

[Newspaper cutting, "Easily rattled" featuring a cartoon of a man talking to a Living Skeleton. ].

Handbill (Sept. 1856) advertising the exhibition of an Algerian youth (13 years old) with 2 faces at the Prince of Wales Bazaar, Regent Street, London.

[Undated handbill advertising "the Aïssaouas' snake and scorpion eaters" ].

[Handbill advertising appearances from Chang, the great Chinese Giant, and chung Mow, the tartar rebel dwarf, at the Egyptian Hall (Piccadilly, London)].

[Undated handbill (October 1898) advertising an exhibition of The Australian Juvenile Giant Family, Clara, Hercules Tom and Anna Snell].

[Undated handbill (after 1876) for a 3 night variety show featuring Capt. Austin (mimic and ventriloquist) and Amy Dot, the Fairy Queen].

[Undated handbill (1886) advertising an appearance by a giant (3 feet tall), 1 year old baby at the Albert Palace, Battersea, London ("Every one should see the giant baby")].

[Undated newspaper cutting (March 1869) advertising The Nova Scotia Giantess, Anna Swan, the Siamese twins and the Circassian Lady at the Egyptian Hall, Piccadilly, London].

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[Undated handbill (1848?) noting the exhibition of Joachim Eleizegui, The Spanish Giant, at the Cosmorama Rooms, Regent Street, London].

[Newspaper cutting, "Easily rattled" featuring a cartoon of a man talking to a Living Skeleton. ].

Handbill (Sept. 1856) advertising the exhibition of an Algerian youth (13 years old) with 2 faces at the Prince of Wales Bazaar, Regent Street, London.

[Undated handbill advertising "the Aïssaouas' snake and scorpion eaters" ].

[Handbill advertising appearances from Chang, the great Chinese Giant, and chung Mow, the tartar rebel dwarf, at the Egyptian Hall (Piccadilly, London)].

[Undated handbill (October 1898) advertising an exhibition of The Australian Juvenile Giant Family, Clara, Hercules Tom and Anna Snell].

[Undated handbill (after 1876) for a 3 night variety show featuring Capt. Austin (mimic and ventriloquist) and Amy Dot, the Fairy Queen].

[Undated handbill (1886) advertising an appearance by a giant (3 feet tall), 1 year old baby at the Albert Palace, Battersea, London ("Every one should see the giant baby")].

[Undated newspaper cutting (March 1869) advertising The Nova Scotia Giantess, Anna Swan, the Siamese twins and the Circassian Lady at the Egyptian Hall, Piccadilly, London].

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