Memoir, &c. of the German Dwarfs, Three Wonders of the World, The Brockstead Family, now holding their daily and evening levees at the Shakspeare Rooms, New Street, & Theatre Royal, Birmingham. MIDGETS Ephemera

Broadside, 455 x 280 mm. old crease. Henrick Cristian Brockstead, aged 22 and 36 inches high weighing 36 pounds, Maria Catherina Brockstead, aged 18, 32 inches high and 22 pounds, and Christian Henrick Brockstead, aged 13, 28 inches high and 16 pounds were siblings, three of the six children of Peter and Maria Brockstead of Hostein, North Germany. They were widely exhibited and "a drama was composed for them, and so well was their performance received that they became as celebrated for their dramatic talent as for their diminutive beauty, grace and charm." The broadside includes copies of their certificates of baptism, vouchers of their talent from various continental courts, and two extensive newspaper reports dated 1844.