Part Woman and Part Baboon!!!
Performance in Montgomery, Alabama
Reference to Mexico and Pedro Sanchez. On "exhibit" in Rifles' Armory Hall in Montgomery, Alabama.
The Weekly Advertiser
1856-04-09
Newspapers.com
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Newspaper
Pastrana in transparent skirt
Pastrana performing in Berlin
Pastrana in a transparent skirt performing in Berlin
(Berlin A Sala)
Dance portrait prints (visual works), ca. 1700-1900. TCS 50 (Pastrana, Julia). Houghton Library,
Harvard University, Cambridge, Mass.
1857-11
Harvard Theatre Collection
Houghton Library/Harvard University
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German
Color print, recto and verso
<a href="https://iiif.lib.harvard.edu/manifests/view/drs:47752375$2i">Link</a> (recto)<br /><a href="https://iiif.lib.harvard.edu/manifests/view/drs:47752375$3i">Link</a> (verso)
The Bear Woman
Pastrana performing in Columbus, OH
Pastrana performing in Ambos Hall. References Mott's report and Pastrana as "the lowest link of humanity and the highest order of brutes." Also mentions Sepulveda with wordplay involving "hug" and "humbugging."
Daily Ohio Statesman
Genealogy Bank
1855-07-03
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Newspaper advertisement
Vol II, Issue 28, p. 3.
Bear Woman! Bear Woman!
Pastrana sings and dances in connection with a display of wax figures
Pastrana sings and dances in connection with a display of wax figures in Philadelphia. Brief description of appearance and performance. This represents her last performances in the United States.
Philadelphia Inquirer
Genealogy Bank
1857-05-15
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English
Newspaper advertisement
The Bear Woman
Pastrana performs in New Orleans
Pastrana performs in New Orleans. Great "sensation" and much curiosity about her.
Times-Picayune
Genealogy Bank
1855-02-11
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Kroll's Establishment
Pastrana in Berlin
Account of Pastrana including summary of pamphlet, "The Singular History . . ." Critical of origin story the pamphlet presents. Description of Pastrana's body and her performance, including the detail that she plays the guitar.
Berlinische Nachriten
Staats Bibliothek (Berlin)
1857-11-05
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German
Newspaper artile
Lyrics from The Singular History of Julia Pastrana
Lyrics given in promotional pamphlet
At the end of a 30 page promotional pamphlet, lyrics are given for different songs Pastrana sang when she performed. The songs include: "The Last Rose of Summer, " "Napolitaine," "Who'll Have Me," and "Miss Julia's Own"
Moore and Sir John Stephenson, Alexander Lee, G. A. Hodson, John Blackman and G.F. Taylor
The Singular History of Julia Pastrana, otherwise known as the nondescript: Pronounced by eminent physicians and naturalists to be the most extraordinary specimen of nature ever yet seen.
C. Housefield, General Printer, 3 Litchfield Street, Soho, 1857.
1857
Colombia University, Butler Library, Rare Books.
pdf
English
Pamphlet
<a href="https://clio.columbia.edu/catalog/5566419">Link</a>
Korrespondenz-Nachrichten
Circus Renz and Pastrana
Pastrana performing in Germany with Circus Renz
Morgenblatt für gebildete leser
Hathi Trust
1858
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German
Journal
52:1-2 (1858) 90-1. <a href="https://babel.hathitrust.org/cgi/pt?id=uiug.30112087545643;view=1up;seq=99">Link</a>
The Nondescript
Performances
"wonder of the world." Description. "Miss Julia is pleased when the ladies and gentlemen ask her questions, and examine her pretty whiskers, of which she is very proud"
The Leader
Nineteenth Century Collections Online (Gale)
1857-07-18
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English
Newspaper ad
<table><tbody><tr><!--StartFragment--><td class="xl65"><a href="http://tinyurl.galegroup.com/tinyurl/3yr433">Link, Issue 382, p.[693]</a></td>
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The Hybrid, or Semi-Human Indian
Performances continue over holidays
1000 visitors in 2 and 1/2 days, ladies captivated by affability and patriotic Spanish chansons, link between human and orang outang, Mott, duality, continued performances
New York Daily Times
Fulton History
1854-12-22
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Newspaper ad
1903057, n.p.