101 results filtered with: Freak shows ephemera. Box 3.
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[Leaflet advertising return appearances by General Mite and Miss Millie Edwards to the Piccadilly Hall, London (December 1884) writen by Mite's father, E.F. Flynn].
Date: 1883
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[Illustrated handbill advertising appearances by Madame Polonawsky, the Bearded Lady (Albert Palace, 15 February 1886)].
Date: 1886
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[Small card advertising appearances by a "Three Legged Child" (illustrated) at the Cosmorama Rooms, 209 Regent Street, London].
Date: [between 1820 and 1850?]
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[Leaflet advertising appearances by "a hermit of 90 years experience" from Abyssinia and a "magic mirror" in which "one remarkable event of future life will be visbly produced."].
Date: [Between 1840 and 1860?]
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[Leaflet advertising appearances by Admiral Tom Trump (Jean Hannema) at Horns Assembly Rooms in Kennington, London on Monday, 11 October 1875. Printed on mauve paper].
Date: 1875
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[Leaflet advertising appearances by Captain Ureck, the Hungarian giant vocalist and a bill of many others at the Royal Theatre (Late Weston's) on Holborn, London].
Date: 1883
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[Single sheet programme (March 1887) for a variety programme featuring Herr Winkelmeier at the London Pavilion].
Date: 1887
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[Leaflet advertising appearances by Herr Unthan, "the man without arms" at the Canterbury Theatre of Varieties, Westminster Bridge Road, London, 25 January 1886. Printed on white paper].
Date: 1886
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[Leaflet advertising an appearance by a New Zealand chief at the Tivoli Gardens in Margate. V.R. (Victoria Regina) with a coat of arms is at the head of the woodcut by B. Burns].
Date: [Between 1880 and 1900?]
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[Leaflet advertising appearances by Frank Uffner's American Midgets: Lucia Zarate and General Mite at the Piccadilly Hall, London. Printed on white paper. 'Punch's mitey little joke' on the reverse].
Date: [1880?]
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[Folded single sheet programme for an appearance by Daisy and Violet Hilton, "reigning sensation of vaudeville, San Antonio's Siamese twins". Includes many photographs of them from the age of 3 months].
Date: [approximately 1929]
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[Folded leaflet (turquoise paper - copies on purple paper exist) advertising appearances of 'The Pygopagi Twins', Josepha and Rosalie Blazek, conjoined twins, in some sort of performance at the Egyptian Hall, Piccadilly, London, in late 1880. The "Bohemian" twins were under the patronage of the Empress of Austria and Queen of Hungary, Crown Prince Rudolf of Austria and other distinguished personages. The twins both died at the age of 45. ].
Date: 1880
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[Newspaper clipping (The Standard, 1 June 1871) about Millie Christine, the Two-Headed Nightingale, Anna Swan, the Nova Scotian giantess and Captain George Martin van Buren Bates, the great Kentucky giant, appearing at Willis's Rooms, King Street, St. James's, London].
Date: 1871
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[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].
Date: [1881]
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[Newspaper cutting advertising the Royal American Midgets: General Mite, his father, E.F. Flynn and Miss Millie Edwards at the Imperial Theatre, Westminster, London].
Date: [1882]
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[Newspaper cutting (The Times, 5 May 1934) about a "so-called "luminous woman" of Pirano whose body emits a luminous glow and Dr. Protti's report to the University of Padua].
Date: 1934
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[Newspaper cutting about the "Death of the Austrian giant" "Winkelmayer" (Franz Winkelmeier) in Vienna from tuberculosis].
Date: [1887]
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[Leaflet (1871) advertising appearances by La Princesse Felicie, Queen of the Lilliputians at the Burlington Gallery, 191 Piccadilly, London].
Date: 1871
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[Page from The Entr'acte for 22 January 1877 showing a cartoon of "A bit of Herr Winkelmeier, the giant at the London Pavilion"].
Date: 1887
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[Folded leaflet about "the life and adventures of the gigantic family" of Queen's County, Ireland. Ann O'Neal is the eldest daughter (also known as Ann O'Neill in other publications). "Gigantic" appears to mean very fat].
Date: [between 1870 and 1873?]
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[Leaflet advertising an appearance by James Paine, the Infant Hercules at St. James's Hall, Piccadilly with the British Tom Thumb, "the smallest man in the world"].
Date: 1864
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[Newspaper clipping showing the skeletons of Mademoiselle Crachani, a Sicilian dwarf and Patrick O'Brien, the Irish Giant on display at the Royal College of Surgeons].
Date: [Between 1880 and 1900?]
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[Cutting from the Lancet for 6 August 1927 showing an "Ancient Roman statuette exemplifying a case of achondroplastic deformity"].
Date: 1927
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[Leaflet advertising appearances by Senorita Anita (The Tiger Lady) and her brother, Robinson (The Bear Boy) at the Royal Aquarium, London (20 February 1886?)].
Date: 1886
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[Reprint of a 1736 "small hand bill, in the British Museum" about a boy and girl, conjoined twins, with 2 heads, 3 arms and 3 legs on display at the Rummer in Three Kings Court, Fleet Street, London].
Date: [between 1800 and 1899?]