Handbills
Works from the collections
280 works
- Ephemera
Oversize ephemera. EPH+33.

- Ephemera
- Online
[Undated handbill (1848?) noting the exhibition of Joachim Eleizegui, The Spanish Giant, at the Cosmorama Rooms, Regent Street, London].
Date: 1848
- Ephemera
- Online
[Leaflet advertising appearances by the 6 month old John Baptist Dos Santos, born with 3 legs, 2 penises and 4 testicles in Portugal 1843 on display at no.56, Quadrant, Regent Street, London].
Date: [between 1843 and 1844?]
- Ephemera
- Online
[Leaflet advertising an exhibition of the mummified corpse of Julia Pastrana at the Burlington Gallery, 191 Piccadilly, London (1862?)].
Date: 1862
- Ephemera
- Online
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
![[Handbill advertising The Edmonton twins: conjoined twins on exhibition at the Adelaide Gallery in the Lowther Arcade, London. The twins were born on 30 January 1855].](https://iiif.wellcomecollection.org/image/b28480429_0001.jp2/full/282%2C/0/default.jpg)

![[Leaflet advertising appearances by "Two children united from the umbilical chord to the top of the breast bone", born January 1833 and being exhibited at The Rotunda, Blackfriars Road, London].](https://iiif.wellcomecollection.org/image/b28546428_EPH_499C_17_0001.jp2/full/282%2C/0/default.jpg)
![[Undated, illustrated (cutting? leaflet?) about bearded Annie Jones-Elliot, "The Esau Lady"].](https://iiif.wellcomecollection.org/image/b28484848_EPH_499A_112_0001.jp2/full/282%2C/0/default.jpg)


![[Leaflet advertising the "midgets' return to London": General Mite, his father, E.F. Flynn and Miss Millie Edwards at the Imperial Theatre, adjoining the Royal Aquarium, London (1882?). It has a cartoon of General Mite being arrested by two policemen].](https://iiif.wellcomecollection.org/image/b28550110_EPH_499B_64_0001.jp2/full/282%2C/0/default.jpg)
![[Undated, illustrated handbill (February 1867?) advertising an appearance at Westminster Hall by Robert Tipney, Mr. Chipperfield's Living Skeleton, 26 years old and weighing 49 pounds. ].](https://iiif.wellcomecollection.org/image/b2848003x_EPH_499A_44_0001.jp2/full/320%2C/0/default.jpg)
![[Undated handbill advertising George Conquest as 'Harlequin, the Yellow Dwarf', a grand Christmas pantomime at Alexandra Palace, London].](https://iiif.wellcomecollection.org/image/b2848017x_EPH_499A_46_0001.jp2/full/282%2C/0/default.jpg)
![[Leaflet advertising appearances by Senorita Anita (The Tiger Lady) and her brother, Robinson (The Bear Boy) at the Royal Aquarium, London (20 February 1886?)].](https://iiif.wellcomecollection.org/image/b28549806_EPH_499B_33_0001.jp2/full/320%2C/0/default.jpg)