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  • Big win for little old me : Hatice Kocaman gets one over the school bullies with Guinness World Record.
  • Mohawk Minstrels : Mr. Andrew Bannister, the Mohawks giant... : Little Thomas, the marvellous male soprano / Proprietors, William Francis & Harry Hunter.
  • Harvey's Midgets : Princess Lottie : 20 inches in height, 14 years of age, actual weight 9 lbs.
  • The famous midget bridal couple : Mr. and Mrs. Franks. : John Lester's Midgets, Tower, Blackpool.
  • King of Lilliputians : the original and only Australian General Tom Thumb, the smallest well-formed man in the world... the world-famed court dwarf and jester, Commodore Knott.
  • Glauer's Royal-Midgets.
  • [Leaflet advertising appearances by Frank Uffner's American Midgets: Lucia Zarate and General Mite at the Piccadilly Hall, London, 22 November 1880. Printed on white paper].
  • 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 ...
  • [Undated handbill (August 1880?) advertising appearances at the Royal Aquarium, London by Chang, the vast Mongolian, accompanied by Henrik Brustad, the huge Norwegian, the Chinese Tom Thumb, the midget Adonis, the Anakites (giants) and midgets. Printed on off-white paper].
  • A mute man and a dwarf, with Turkish buildings in the background. Line engraving.
  • Colonel Chang, a giant, and General Mite, a midget. Lithograph.
  • Miss Crachami, the Sicilian dwarf exhibiting at 22 New Bond-street.
  • Highland dwarfs.
  • [Faithfully yours, Little Hatch].
  • [1934 cigarette card (no.25 in a series of 50 : Believe it or not) featuring Tom Thumb, who had kissed 1,500,00 women in 3 years. From Carreras high class cigarettes (Arcadia Works, London)].
  • Mr. & Mrs. "General Tom Thumb" in their wedding costume.
  • The Aztec Lilliputians and the Earthmen, or Erdmanniges : grand fashionable exhibitions commencing Tuesday, Dec. 26th, to continue for a short time only ... / Queen's Concert Rooms, Hanover Square.
  • Bertholde, a dwarf. Engraving by A. Walker.
  • Extraordinary birth! : On Sunday last, at Ferguson's Grand Promenade and exhibition rooms, 167, High Holborn, the lady of the celebrated dwarf Senor Santiago de Loss Santos, was delivered of a fine boy, the father being no more than 25 inches high, although 49 years of age, while his mother is but 28 inches high, and 31 years of age : an apartment has been fitted up expressly for the shewing of this great novelty ...
  • Thomas Allen and Lady Morgan, dwarfs. Engraving, 1803.
  • A male dwarf said to be Persian and to possess unusual talents. Etching, ca. 1740.
  • A male dwarf, painting. Colour etching by A. Pond, 1736, after A. Carracci.
  • [Undated handbill (London, 1837?) advertising an appearance by Matthias Gullia, the man in miniature, 2 feet 10 inches, at Cosmorama, 209 Regent Street, London].
  • These are to give notice, to all persons of quality and others, that there is newly come to this place a little Scotch man ... : he being but two foot and six inches high, and is near upon sixty years of age ...
  • [Leaflet (September 1894) giving a brief account ot the life of Anastasia Boruwlaski, sister to the celebrated dwarf, Josef Boruwlaski].
  • The most astonishing contrast of a female dwarf and male giant.
  • Johann Worrenburg, a dwarf, aged 38. Etching, 1688.
  • Boxing night and until further notice : special engagement of Herr Joseph Drasal, the Tyrolese Giant, aged 32 years, the tallest man in the world, measuring eight feet four inches also Colonel D. Ulpts, the Tyrolese Midget, aged 22 years, measuring 34 inches high. First appearance in England / South London Palace, London Road, near the Elephant & Castle ... under the sole management of Mr. H. Ulph, Jun.
  • Henri Cot, the French giant and Prince Colibri, the midget.
  • Two dwarfs: "Tom Thumb" (Charles Sherwood Stratton) (1838-1883) and his wife Lavinia Warren Stratton (1841-1919). Photograph, c. 1865.