132 results filtered with: Freak shows ephemera. Box 5
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Challenge to the American dwarf, General Tom Thumb : the English dwarf, Field Marshal Tom Thumb, now exhibiting daily, at the Egyptian Hall, Piccadilly ... to appear and perform with him in public, so that their respective admirers may judge of their comparative merits ...
Date: [1846]
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The Fairy Queen : now exhibiting at the Cosmorama Rooms, 209, Regent Street : universally pronounced the wonder of the age, and smallest child in the world! Twelve months old, sixteen inches high and weighs only four pounds.
Date: [1850]
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A child of the name of Wybrants was exhibited in London, in 1806, who at four months old, was saiod to weigh 39 pounds ...
Date: [between 1820 and 1850?]
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In Paris they shew an infant Hercules, who is immensely fat.
Date: [between 1840 and 1880?]
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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.
Date: [1850]
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This is to acquaint the nobility, gentry and the curious in general : to be seen ... during the time of the fair, the surprising Italian Dwarf, two feet six inches high, 25 years of age, born without arms, legs, or thighs. Yet has feet and hands.
Date: [between 1803 and 1850?]
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Mr. Bernard Cavanagh, the Fasting Man ... will receive company at his rooms, 263, Strand ... : His first long fast commenced at the death of his mother, which took place nearly six years ago, since that period he has not tasted any food whatever ...
Date: [1841]
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To be seen at ... the English Dwarf : this amazing prodigy of nature was born at Wisbech, Cambridgeshire ...
Date: [between 1850 and 1890?]
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To the curious in nature : the Horned Woman : who has a horn growing on her head, like those in a young ram.
Date: [between 1750 and 1793?]
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General Tom Thumb : the man in miniature, exhibiting every day and evening, in Caitlin's Indian Collection, Egyptian Hall, Piccadilly for a short time only.
Date: [1844?]
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The cabinet of curiosities, or wonders of the world displayed. No.15, Wybrand Lolkes, the Dutch Dwarf.
Date: [between 1820 and 1860?]
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Don Francisco, the little man from Madrid will hold his levees every day for a short period, at the Cosmorama Rooms, 200, Regent-street.
Date: [1846]- Ephemera
Just arrived, and may be seen in the commodious rooms, 287, Strand : W.W. Westhead, the Manchester Gigantic Boy! Who was born on the 26th September, 1810 ...
Date: [1823]
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This is to acquaint the curious in general, that there is to be seen, from two in the afternoon, till nine in the evening, without loss of time : at the Crown in High-Street, Canterbury, the surprising Warwickshitre young lady, Miss Hawtin, from Coventry ...
Date: [1776?]
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Mr. J. Wharton : when only 13 years of age, he weighed eighteen stone, and continued to increase in weight a stone each year, till he was thirty years old ... he died November, 1810, at Appleby Carside, Lincoln, at the age of 34.
Date: [between 1840 and 1880?]
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The Siamese twins.
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"This is to acquaint all gentlemen and ladies, that the Living Colossus, or Wonderful Giant (who has been these five weeks very dangerously ill of a fever, which has occasioned a report of his death) is now so well recovered as to be able to shew himself ... at the sign of the Mansion House and French Horn, between Poultry and the Royal Exchange ...
Date: [1742?]
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An extraordinary birth.
Date: [between 1850 and 1899?]
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Francisca, the Mexican dwarf.
Date: [1850?]
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John Grimes : when 57 years old, was 3 feet 8 inches high ...
Date: [between 1840 and 1880?]
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An extraordinary freak of nature, or, a man encrusted with a barnacle or stone-like skin.
Date: [1834]
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Marc Catozze : born without arms or legs : called the Little Dwarf, was born at Venice, in the year 1741 ... he expired at Paris, the age of 62 ...
Date: [between 1803 and 1850?]
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Just arrived from Bullock's Museum, the greatest novelty in Hull : to be seen, at no. 13 Queen-Street, the only two esquimaux indians, ever brought to this kingdom : mal;e and female, from the frozen regions of the North ...
Date: [1822]
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John Cummings : a dwarf, 31 inches high, died on the 12th September, 1811 ...
Date: [between 1850 and 1899?]
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The surprising little man : being a person of twenty-two years of age, yet no more than three feet two inches high ...
Date: [Between 1770 and 1799?]