But try passing off tickets for a singing mouse or for an enormous head ("18 feet in Length, 7 Feet in Breadth, and Weighing 1700 Pounds"), or for Joice Heth, age 161, now a "living skeleton," weighing 46 pounds, once nurse to infant George Washington, or so the handbill, from 1835 claims.
En route to the mine, Django proves to his dim-witted Australian escorts that he is a bounty hunter by showing them the handbill from his first kill.
The handbill his grandmother brought back from the 1963 March on Washington is framed above his desk.
From Buchinger to the Chinese circus, clearly nothing changes, except maybe the refinement of the handbill.
(See the slide show above for an image of the handbill announcing its opening, along with other documents mentioned here).
The exhibition explains the handbill as part of the library's mission of acquiring ephemera, but collecting also makes an assertion that objects will have a future value.
Django, now fully trained, collects his first bounty, keeping the handbill as a good luck charm.
The Dissenters found themselves forced to plead ignorance and decry the "radical" ideas promoted by the handbill.
Town officials offered 100 guineas for information regarding the publication of the handbill and its author, to no avail.
Walking through the noise and clamour of the Market, one could glimpse, at odd, surprising moments, the child's face, staring out from one of the handbills that have littered the festival, stuck up on a pole or pinned to the side of a stand.
