773 results filtered with: Abnormalities, Human
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[Leaflet advertising appearances by Herr Unthan, "the armless wonder" at theSouth London Palace, 15 April (1889?). Printed on pink paper].
Date: [1889?]- Ephemera
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[Leaflet advertising the exhibition of The Petrified Man from Tucapel, Chile, in the Trance Room of the Royal Aquarium, London].
Date: [between 1880 and 1899?]- Books
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A True relation of a monstrous female-child, with two heads, four eyes, four ears, two noses, two mouths, and four arms, four legs, and all things else proportionably, fixed to one body : born about the 19 of May last, at a village called Ill-Brewers near Taunton Dean in Somerset-shire : likewise a true and perfect account of its form so prodigiously strange ... / as it was faithfully communicated in a letter, by a person of worth, living in Taunton-Dean, to a gentleman here in London.
Date: [1680?]- Ephemera
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[Newspaper cutting (4 July 1882) advertising the Royal American Midgets: General Mite, his father, E.F. Flynn and Miss Millie Edwards at the Imperial Theatre, Westminster, London].
Date: [1882]- Books
Anomalies and curiosities of medicine : being an encyclopedic collection of rare and extraordinary cases, and of the most striking instances of abnormality in all branches of medicine and surgery, derived from an exhaustive research of medical literature from its origin to the present day, abstracted, classified, annotated, and indexed (1896) / by George M. Gould and Walter L. Pyle.
Gould, George M. (George Milbry), 1848-1922.Date: 1956- Pictures
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Shwe-Maong, a man in Burma whose head and face are covered with hair. Aquatint by J.H. Clark after W.E. Reid.
Reid, W. E.Date: [1834]Reference: 31814i- Books
Articulating the elephant man : Joseph Merrick and his interpreters / Peter W. Graham, Fritz H. Oehlschlaeger.
Graham, Peter W., 1951-Date: [1992], ©1992- Ephemera
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Tootsie and the giant.
Date: 1887- Ephemera
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This is to give notice, to all gentlemen, ladies, and others, that there is arriv'd at this place a little wild man, born in St. David's Streights, aged 27 years : he is 34 inches high, streight, very well proportioned ...
Date: [1979]- Books
Genetic diseases and developmental disabilities : aspects of detection and prevention / edited by Tamah L. Sadick and Siegfried M. Pueschel.
Date: 1979- Ephemera
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Pleasing phenomenon : a nyctalopess, from Witham in Essex at Brooke's Menagerie, no. 242, Piccadilly ...
Date: [1815?]- Ephemera
Freak shows ephemera. Box 3.
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Important notice ! : Everybody should see our girls : to be seen only at Elliss's Exhibition which will visit this town during the fair : consisting of the Scottish-Canadian giantess twin sisters ... / Raper, Frank, business manager and agent-in-advance ; Seth Elliss, sole proprietor.
Raper, FrankDate: [1880?]- Books
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Ein Fall von beiderseitigem Colobom der inneren Augenhäute ohne Colobom der Iris : inaugural-Dissertation zur Erlangung der Doctorwürde / von Joseph Eichhoff.
Eichhoff, Joseph.Date: 1878- Ephemera
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Important notice : Elliss's exhibition of living wonders, will exhibit here for a short time only : consisting of the Great North American Giantess Twin Sisters ... / Seth Elliss, manager and proprietor.
Elliss, SethDate: [1880?]- Pictures
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Chang and Eng the Siamese twins, in an oriental setting. Lithograph, 1830.
Date: Jany [1830]Reference: 2615i- Pictures
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Chang and Eng the Siamese twins, aged eighteen, with badminton rackets. Coloured engraving by JLB, 1829.
Date: December 1829Reference: 2610i- Ephemera
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The Highland Youth : this youth, whose miraculous powers of double sight have surprised all who have visited him. Exhibits every day from twelve to half-past five, at the Egyptian Hall, Piccadilly ...
Date: [1832]- Ephemera
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[Leaflet (27 December 1872?) advertising an appearance of "the gigantic mother and daughter" of Queen's County, Ireland. Ann O'Neill is the daughter (also known as Ann O'Neal in other publications) at Whiteley's Unrivalled Exhibition of Living Wonders (15 Tichborne Street, Haymarket, London). "Gigantic" appears to mean very fat. Also appearing is Mr. Jackson, the "smallest man in the world"].
Date: [between 1870 and 1873?]- Ephemera
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The hirsute Kostroma people from the primeval forests of central Russia : the first of their kind ever seen in England.
Date: [1874]- Pictures
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Four figures: Geneviève, an albino woman of African descent, with white instead of black skin; the conjoint twins Hélène and Judith; and Maria Herig who had a skin disease. Engraving after J. de Sève, 1777.
Reference: 2347i- Books
Inherited abnormalities of the skin and its appendages / by E.A. Cockayne.
Cockayne, E. A. (Edward Alfred), 1880-Date: 1933- Ephemera
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Birth extraordinary! Patronized by royalty : Just arrived Hartley's unequalled exhibition : To be seen alive in a commodious caravan, in Broadwall, opposite the Mitre, New Cut, Lambeth : Mast. Daniel Hartley, the great Goliah of the day, or the wonder of the age ... the above youth is accompanied and contrasted by The Devonshire Dwarf! Mr Thomas Bartlett, or the man in miniature.
Date: [1861]- Books
Congenital defects / Lauri Saxén, Juhani Rapola.
Saxén, Lauri.Date: [1969]- Ephemera
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Anatomie vivante, or, the Living Skeleton.
Date: [1825?]