Wortley Royal Waxwork

English handbill printed on very thin paper with red and blue ink, advertising Wortley's Royal Waxork Exhibition at The Pavilion, Harrogate Road, Ripon. Included are "Barnum's Freaks of Nature: The Pig-Faced Lady, The Elephant Man, The Two-Headed Child, The Lion-Faced Lady, and Skeleton Man." Also, "The Criminal Chamber, Murderers and their victims."........J. Wortley may have been related to Tom Wortley, who exhibited a "La Cleo, Tattooed Princess" and "a two-headed giant" in England in the 1910's.

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