773 results filtered with: Abnormalities, Human
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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 ...
Date: [Between 1840 and 1880?]- Books
Über die Missbildungen von ektopisch entwickelten Früchten und deren Ursachen / von F. v. Winckel.
Winckel, F. (Franz), 1837-1912.Date: 1902- Ephemera
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Monday, October 8th, 1883 : special engagement of Captain Ureck, the Hungarian giant : the tallest man in the world / Raglan Music Hall, Charlotte St., Blackfriars, Star Music Hall, Abbey St., Bermondsey.
Date: 1883- Ephemera
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[Leaflet advertising an exhibition of the mummified corpse of Julia Pastrana at the Burlington Gallery, 191 Piccadilly, London (1862?)].
Date: 1862- Books
Artistic and documentary evidence for tetradysmelia from sixteenth century England / Trevor Anderson.
Anderson, Trevor.Date: 1994- Ephemera
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Important notice : one fact is worth twenty arguments, and a fact is that the most pleasing and remarkable exhibition in the known world is now in this town... : to be seen alive, a child with one side perfect while the other side of him is double jointed and a skeleton... also the world's wonder, the female Baby Samson.
Date: [1880?]- Ephemera
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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.
Date: date of publication not identified- Ephemera
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The eighth wonder!! : the celebrated Miss Beffin, miniature painter, will exhibit her wondrous powers, in a commodious booth, during this present fair : a young lady who was born deficient of arms, hands and legs ...
Date: [1809?]- Pictures
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Louis-César-Joseph Ducornet, an artist born without arms. Lithograph by H. Robillard.
Robillard, Hippolyte.Date: 1838Reference: 4085i- Ephemera
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Arthur Lloyd : invt & delt. 1882.
Date: 1882- Ephemera
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Anita, "the living doll" : smallest woman in the world : age 30 years, height 26 inches.
Date: [1912?]- Ephemera
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[Undated handbill advertising "the Aïssaouas' snake and scorpion eaters" ].
Date: date of publication not identified- Books
Freak show : presenting human oddities for amusement and profit / Robert Bogdan.
Bogdan, Robert.Date: 1988- Ephemera
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Wonderful production of nature : the greatest human curiosity! Now in existence, Master Thomas Jones, the Cambrian Porcupine Youth!! ... is now exhibiting, for a short time, at the Cosmorama Rooms, 209 Regent Street.
Date: [1841]- Books
Disquisitio physica, ostendi duorum puerorum, quorum unus cum dente aureo alter cum capite gyganteo Vilnae in Lithuania regni Poloniae provincia spectabatur Anno Domini 1673.
Tylkowski, Wojciech, 1629-1695.Date: 1674- Ephemera
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Ne plus ultra!! : now exhibiting : the Spanish Goliah, the celebrated Senor Joachim Eleizegui, from the Basque provinces of Spain ; twenty-three years of age - stands 7 feet 10 in. weighs 450 pounds!.
Date: [1850]- Books
Basic concepts in teratology / T.V.N. Persaud, A.E. Chudley, R.G. Skalko.
Persaud, T. V. N.Date: [1985]- Ephemera
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[Small leaflet advertising appearances by General and Lady Mite, "open to spar all comers"].
Date: 1889- Ephemera
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Le Prince Colibri : né le 20 octobre 1883, à Levland (Russie) : mesurant 62 centimètres, pesant 4 kilogrammes.
Date: [1910?]- Ephemera
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[Folded leaflet (purple paper - copies on turquoise 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- Archives and manuscripts
Cardiac and circulatory subjects (4th series)
Date: 1916-1944Reference: PP/FPW/B.55/4Part of: Parkes Weber, Frederick (1863-1962)- Ephemera
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[Small leaflet advertising appearances by Roberts's Greatest Phenomenon of the Age (late of the Crystal Palace), a "young lady born without arms", at The Horn of Plenty, Whitecross Street [London?]].
Date: [between 1860 and 1880?]- Ephemera
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[Newspaper cutting about an appearance by a giant in London on 12 May 1716: "A chronicle of curious events"].
Date: 1889- Ephemera
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251, Regent-St. nearly opposite the Argyll Rooms : to be seen daily, the beautiful Giraffe Spotted Girl ... Miss Fabian is most curiously spotted, equal to the giraffe ...
Date: [1830?]- Ephemera
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A short, but concise account of Elisabeth and Mary Chulkhurst, who were born joined together by the hips and shoulders, in the year of our Lord 1100, at Biddenden, in the county of Kent : commonly called the Biddenden Maids.
Date: 1805