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  • [Illustrated ticket to an entertainment of Henry Smith, vocalist, and the Aztec Lilliputians from Iximaya in central America and the Earthmen or Erdmanniges from under the earth in South Africa. Dated May 1855].
  • 36 years old : : this is his exact height 26 in.
  • A grotesque accouchement. Oil painting.
  • Louis Crane : was born in Hayneville, in Normandy, in the year 1762; and was only two feet four inches high ...
  • Chang, the Chinese giant : Brustad, the giant of Norway. Che-Mah, the Chinese Tom Thumb. Madaree, the real hindoo jadooger. And the midget prince 'Adonis' / Royal Aquarium, Westminster.
  • Simon Paap, a dwarf. Stipple engraving by R. Cooper, 1823.
  • [Small leaflet advertising appearances by General and Lady Mite, "open to spar all comers"].
  • The Chinese giant ... : The Jenner monument at Boulogne.
  • Hans and Gretel : tango midgets from Germany.
  • Just arrived at this place, and to be exhibited in a large and commodious caravan, during the fair : that wonderful American youth, Mr. Leach ... the shortest person in the world!.
  • [Article from the 17 June issue of 'Harper's young people' about: Real giants and dwarfs].
  • [Handbill advertising appearances from Chang, the great Chinese Giant, and chung Mow, the tartar rebel dwarf, at the Egyptian Hall (Piccadilly, London)].
  • Just arrived, and may be seen in the Commodious Rooms, 287 Strand : Mrs. Butcher, the celebrated Yorkshire married dwarf : the smallest lady and the greatest wonder of the present age.
  • [Leaflet advertising appearances by Uffner's Royal American Midgets: General Mite and Lucia Zarate at the Piccadilly Hall, London. Shows the General standing on a table covered by a cloth].
  • Chang Yu-sing the Chinese giant, with his wife King-Foo,and Chung Mow, a dwarf. Wood engraving.
  • Simon Paap, a dwarf. Etching by G. Cruikshank.
  • John Worrenberg, the Swiss dwarf.
  • [Major Page : age 28 years, height 26 inches].
  • Undated fragment advertising Aama the giantess and Colonel Ulpts at the Trocadero (London).
  • A grotesque accouchement. Oil painting.
  • [Undated handbill advertising George Conquest as 'Harlequin, the Yellow Dwarf', a grand Christmas pantomime at Alexandra Palace, London].
  • The Royal American Midgets daily... : Piccadilly Hall.
  • Jeffery Hudson, a dwarf and Walter Parsons, a giant. Etching.
  • [Leaflet advertising appearances by Admiral Tom Trump (Jean Hannema) at Horns Assembly Rooms in Kennington, London on Monday, 11 October 1875. Printed on pale blue paper].
  • Bébé, a dwarf dressed as a Roman soldier, standing on a table amidst people. Lithograph after A. Géniole.
  • [Undated yellow handbill (London, December 1884?) advertising an appearance by Harvey's Midges: Princess Lottie, Prince Midge, Miss Jennie Worgen, General Tot and Mlle. Lottie Adelina de Lara, child pianist, at the Piccadilly Hall, London].
  • "Princess Dot.".
  • Madame Teresia, a dwarf known as The Corsican Fairy. Stipple engraving, 1820.
  • The cabinet of curiosities, or wonders of the world displayed. No.15, Wybrand Lolkes, the Dutch Dwarf.
  • Rome, the Spanish Steps: a woman and a boy looking at a male dwarf standing at the foot of the steps. Wash drawing by C.L., 180-.