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Chang The Great Chinese Giant, Lady Chang King Foo, Chung Mow the Tartar Rebel Dwarf, Ah Ying, Woo Kwan Toon, and Sing Ah Look at the Egyptian Hall, Piccadilly. Multi act bill, Chinese nationals, mostly apparently dwarfs. Printed by Arliss and Co., 15, Great Queen St., W.C.

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Handbills for travelling shows, exhibitions and performances at the Egyptian Hall in Piccadilly, London.

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Handbills for travelling shows, fairs, exhibitions and performances at a wide range of venues.

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Female Colossus or celebrated Swiss giantess, 19 years old, six feet seven inches tall. Giantess Catherine Boebner at 125 St James's St, Brighton. Printed by Fleet, Brighton.

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Colonel Chang Yu Sing, and General Tiny Mite, at Piccadilly Hall. Colonel Chang - 8ft Six, 500lbs, 35yo. Gen Tiny Mite (Successor to Gen Mite) 19in tall, four & three quarter lbs, 15 yo. Offering cash prizes to anyone who can provide small or bigger men than Mr Uffner. Printed by Walter Smith, High Street, Bloomsbury, 2pp.

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French Giant at 22 New Bond Street. "Immense French Giant 7Ft 4 in. of Wonderful strength perfectly proportioned and only 22 Years of Age". Printed by Handy, 50 Brewer Street, Golden Square.

Scope and Contents Reuzin the Dutch giantess. In the New Elegant Lodge, Standing on the Butter Market, Quiet Side. Important Freak of Nature! The tallest, most beautiful and youngest Giantess, now living in Europe. Who has been honoured with a visit from our Royal Highnesses Prince and Princess Hendrik and the Prince of Orange. The world wonder, Elsbeth, called Murphy in female shape. Of exceptionally athletic build. Her appearance causes the greatest surprise. Never seen before. Excellent proportion of...

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Gigantic fat girl, Miss Holmes - two dwarf sisters, Miss Emma Patten, the Dorsetshire dwarf and her sister, Ellen Patten - great golden boa constictor, real Crocodiles, and strangling serpents. Private exhibitions can be arranged. Printed by J. Trives and Son, Portsea.

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Handbills for travelling shows, fairs, exhibitions and performances in London.

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Handbills for travelling shows, fairs, exhibitions and performances at venues outside London.

Scope and Contents The collection consists of handbills, programmes and small flyers for shows, fairs, expositions and circus performances in the nineteenth century. The circus material in the Bramwell Taylor Collection was sponsored by the Circus Friends Association of Great Britain and consists of material relating to 19th century touring circuses, individual acts and purpose built hippodromes such as Hengler’s Circus and Astley’s Amphitheatre. Additionally this collection also contains a small amount of...

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General Tiny Mite, Chang The Great Chinese Giant, The Madagascar Family, The White Moors, and Zaluma Medea, at Piccadilly Hall Gen Tiny Mite, Chang, the Great Chinese Giant, combined with a pleasing and refined parlour entertainment .Printed by Walter Smith, Steam Printers, 61 and 62 High Street, London, W.C., 2pp.

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Illustration featuring a giant at nearly nine feet high.

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Handbills for travelling shows, exhibititions and performances at Old Bond Street and New Bond Street.

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Handbills for travelling shows, exhibitions and performances at Piccadilly, Piccadilly Hall and Haymarket.

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Monsieur Louis the Giant, and the Smallest Horse in the World at Gothis Hall, Haymarket. Mons. Louis. Seven Feet Six inches tall, 25 years old appears with Nonpariel - 'The Smallest Horse in the World', six years old and only thirty inches high, 2pp.

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The English Giant, Smallest Man in the World and The English Giantess. Shown around the UK in a travelling Pavilion “an opportunity...of seeing a gratifying contrast between a dwarf and giants” a giant, small man and a giantess who were exhibited around the UK. Printed by C. Pick, Feasegate, York.