Sensation of the day : will visit this town two great and startling novelties : Mr. W. Campbell the celebrated young Scottish giant ... weighs the enormous weight of 48 stone 9 lb ... he is accompanied by that great and beautiful sight Miss M. E. Bland the anglo-saxon wonder! A sight all ladies ought to see. Fourteen years of age ... and weighs the astounding weight of 18 stone 3 lb.

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view Sensation of the day : will visit this town two great and startling novelties : Mr. W. Campbell the celebrated young Scottish giant ... weighs the enormous weight of 48 stone 9 lb ... he is accompanied by that great and beautiful sight Miss M. E. Bland the anglo-saxon wonder! A sight all ladies ought to see. Fourteen years of age ... and weighs the astounding weight of 18 stone 3 lb.

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Sensation of the day : will visit this town two great and startling novelties : Mr. W. Campbell the celebrated young Scottish giant ... weighs the enormous weight of 48 stone 9 lb ... he is accompanied by that great and beautiful sight Miss M. E. Bland the anglo-saxon wonder! A sight all ladies ought to see. Fourteen years of age ... and weighs the astounding weight of 18 stone 3 lb. Public Domain Mark. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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Poster advertising appearances by William Campbell and M. E. Bland, an obese man and woman. Printed by Samuel Dawson, printer and lithographer of Dewsbury.

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[1875?]
Dewsbury : Samuel Dawson, [1875?]

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1 sheet ; 50 x 24 cm

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Copy 1. Annotated in manuscript about their appearance in Mill Street, Lambeth Walk during April 1875. Bills like this one were posted on the house in which they appeared.

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