Dwarfs (Persons)
Subject
Subject Source: Library of Congress Subject Headings
Found in 63 Collections and/or Records:
Victorian, Edwardian and Georgian Circus Posters, c1800 - 1930
Sub-Series
Reference code: 178R47.1-51
Scope and Contents
Early circus and menagerie posters including Polito's menagerie, Astley's Amphitheatre and Pablo Fanque's, Sanger's, Powell's, Ducrow's, Cooke's and Hengler's circuses among others.
Dates:
c1800 - 1930
Violet Bartram Collection
Fonds
Reference code: NFA0195
Scope and Contents
Black and white photographs, negatives and postcards of fairgrounds, amusement parks, circus and performers, a newspaper cutting and a handbill.
Dates:
c1902 - 1953
Found in:
National Fairground and Circus Archive
Wonders Will Never Cease Handbill, 1819 - 1820
Item — Box John Barmwell Taylor Box 2: Series 178T1
Reference code: 178T1.256
Scope and Contents
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.
Dates:
1819 - 1820