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  • Jeffery Hudson, a dwarf and Walter Parsons, a giant. Engraving.
  • [Leaflet advertising appearances by Lucia Zarate and General Mite at the Piccadilly Hall, London ("The midgets, 'two little to earth-quakes')].
  • Midgets wedding : George Stoddart, age 32 years, Eva Crane, age 27 years.
  • The Fairy Queen : now exhibiting at the Cosmorama Rooms, 209, Regent Street : the wonder of the age, and smallest child in the world! Seventeen months old, sixteen inches high and weighs only four pounds.
  • Three giants, the tallest identified as Charles Byrne and the others as twins, and six spectators including an unidentified lady and dwarf. Etching by J. Kay, 1784, after himself.
  • For three nights only. Tuesday, thursday and Saturday, August 11th, 13th, & 15th, 1846 : The manager has the gratification of announcing to the nobility and gentry visiting Buxton, and to the inhabitants generally, that he has entered into an arrangement for the above lilited period, with England's native wonder, Field Marshal Tom Thumb! / Theatre, Buxton.
  • The Turkish Tom Thumb (Pasha Hayati Hassid) : height 30 inches, speaks seven langauges : introduced into England by Lloyd Forsyth.
  • Gruss von Krichel's Riesen- und Märchen-Revue.
  • Hans and Gretel : tango midgets from Germany.
  • [Newspaper cutting (1865?) about appearances by Tom Thumb, Commodore Nutt and Minnie Warren at St. James's Hall].
  • The cabinet of curiosities, or wonders of the world displayed. No.15, Wybrand Lolkes, the Dutch Dwarf.
  • Anita, "the living doll" : smallest woman in the world : age 30 years, height 26 inches.
  • Commencing Monday, Nov. 22nd, 1880 : the smallest man and woman in the world! Frank Uffner's Midgets ... Miss Lucia Zarate, the smallest woman in the world ... General Mite, the smallest man in the world ... / Piccadilly Hall.
  • Schaefer's Liliput Revue.
  • Two dwarfs with their owner, a guard of the Raja of Patiala. Lithograph by L.C. Dickinson, 1844, after Emily Eden.
  • [Small handbill advertising Millie Christine, the Two-Headed Nightingale, and Harvey's Midges (smallest people in the world), appearing at the Piccadilly Hall, London].
  • "Com. Nutt" and Minnie Warren.
  • A male dwarf said to be Persian and to possess unusual talents. Etching, ca. 1740.
  • The Royal American Midgets daily... : Piccadilly Hall.
  • Midgets farewell to London : reduction of prices on or after Monday, January 31st, 1881 ... Uffner's Royal American Midgets, the smallest people in the world.
  • Under the patronage of Her Majesty and the royal family : Gen. Tom Thumb : three levees daily at the Prince of Wales Bazaar, 209 Regent Street, near Conduit Street ... / Prince of Wales Bazaar.
  • Piccadilly Hall on and after Monday, Sept. 4th : Royal American Midgets : Miss Millie Edwards... two receptions daily... / Piccadilly Hall.
  • Mr. Charles Du-Val at home.
  • Waino and Plutaino : wild men of Borneo.
  • [Small handbill advertising an appearance by Che Mah, the celebrated Chinese Dwarf, the smallest man in the world at the Queen's Arms, High Street, Islington (December 1868?)].
  • [Leaflet advertising appearances by Frank Uffner's American Midgets: Lucia Zarate and General Mite at the Piccadilly Hall, London. Printed on white paper].
  • Chang Yu-sing the Chinese giant, and Chung Mow, a dwarf. Photograph.
  • Dwarfs being exhibited in Piccadilly, London. Reproduction of a wood engraving after H. Morehen.
  • General Tom Thumb : the American man in miniature ... at the Victoria Rooms, Hull, on Friday, Saturday, and Monday October 25, 26, and 28.
  • [Newspaper cutting (1865?) about appearances by Tom Thumb, Commodore Nutt and Minnie Warren at St. James's Hall].