Miss Nixon - fat woman “12 years of age and twenty-five stone” and Miss Oakley - 'midget' dwarf.

This collection of printed material produced by the Enquirer Job Printing Company contains American sideshow and freak show posters mainly from the Ripley’s ‘Believe it or Not’ franchise and a poster sampler that was taken around by salesmen from the company.

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

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.

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

‘Believe it or Not’. ‘The Mrs’ Big Bertha 540 lbs. ’The Mr’ Slim Jim 68 lbs. Colour illustration of fat lady in stripy orange and white dress and slim man wearing a black suit, tail coat and monocle dancing on orange and white background and orange, white and blue type.

Weight 540 lbs. Colour illustration of fat lady seating on a chair. White figure with black outline and light brownish purple short drees on brownish purple background.

Weight 540 lbs. Subject as cartooned by Robt. L. Ripley. Colour illustration of fat lady standing in a short dress. Figure in white with black outline and green dress and green and black background.

Posters of sideshow and freak show performers printed by the Enquirer Job Printing Company, in Cincinnati, USA, many of which for Leroy Robert Ripley's Believe it or Not franchise.