Keywords: text document writing Handbill announcing a display of prehistoric animal remains, especially a "leviathan" (skeleton illustrated), larger than a mammoth or an iguanodon. Other remains on show included a mylodon, tetracaulodon, mastodon, and gigantic mammals. Also advertised is a series of daily geological lectures by Dr W Crook. The handbill is authorised by proprietor Albert Koch. Quantity: 1 b&w art print(s). Physical Description: Letterpress and relief print, 250 x 187 mm. Odell, George, fl 1840s. Egyptian Hall, Piccadilly. The Missouri Leviathan, with the largest and most interesting collection of North American antediluvian animal remains in the world, is now exhibiting in the upper saloon of the above hall, from 10 o'clock a.m. until 10 p.m. Disinterred 1840, after five months' labour ... 30 feet in length, nearly 15 feet high, tusks from point to point, 21-feet. George Odell, printer, 18, Princes Street, Cavendish Square [ca 1842].. [Collection of ephemera, handbills, fliers, relating to miscellaneous entertainments in England. 1800s].. Ref: Eph-B-WEBSTER-Entertainment-1842-01. Alexander Turnbull Library, Wellington, New Zealand. natlib.govt.nz/records/22866074 Handbill announcing a display of prehistoric animal remains, especially a "leviathan" (skeleton illustrated), larger than a mammoth or an iguanodon. Other remains on show included a mylodon, tetracaulodon, mastodon, and gigantic mammals. Also advertised is a series of daily geological lectures by Dr W Crook. The handbill is authorised by proprietor Albert Koch. Quantity: 1 b&w art print(s). Physical Description: Letterpress and relief print, 250 x 187 mm. Odell, George, fl 1840s. Egyptian Hall, Piccadilly. The Missouri Leviathan, with the largest and most interesting collection of North American antediluvian animal remains in the world, is now exhibiting in the upper saloon of the above hall, from 10 o'clock a.m. until 10 p.m. Disinterred 1840, after five months' labour ... 30 feet in length, nearly 15 feet high, tusks from point to point, 21-feet. George Odell, printer, 18, Princes Street, Cavendish Square [ca 1842].. [Collection of ephemera, handbills, fliers, relating to miscellaneous entertainments in England. 1800s].. Ref: Eph-B-WEBSTER-Entertainment-1842-01. Alexander Turnbull Library, Wellington, New Zealand. natlib.govt.nz/records/22866074 |