Midget Exhibit: Images from the Heyday of Dwarf Display
In the mid-1800s, inveterate showman/salesman P. T. Barnum introduced a real-life Tom Thumb and spawned a huge movement of midget exhibits. Little people were paraded en masse throughout Europe and the New World, earning fame and fortune as the central attractions in a freak show phenomenon that lasted well over a century. Explore this little world in postcard mementoes from an era when the unabashedly curious feasted their eyes on the unusual.
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Midget Exhibit: Images from the Heyday of Dwarf Display
In the mid-1800s, inveterate showman/salesman P. T. Barnum introduced a real-life Tom Thumb and spawned a huge movement of midget exhibits. Little people were paraded en masse throughout Europe and the New World, earning fame and fortune as the central attractions in a freak show phenomenon that lasted well over a century. Explore this little world in postcard mementoes from an era when the unabashedly curious feasted their eyes on the unusual.
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Midget Exhibit: Images from the Heyday of Dwarf Display

Midget Exhibit: Images from the Heyday of Dwarf Display

Midget Exhibit: Images from the Heyday of Dwarf Display

Midget Exhibit: Images from the Heyday of Dwarf Display

Overview

In the mid-1800s, inveterate showman/salesman P. T. Barnum introduced a real-life Tom Thumb and spawned a huge movement of midget exhibits. Little people were paraded en masse throughout Europe and the New World, earning fame and fortune as the central attractions in a freak show phenomenon that lasted well over a century. Explore this little world in postcard mementoes from an era when the unabashedly curious feasted their eyes on the unusual.

Product Details

ISBN-13: 9780764321146
Publisher: Schiffer Publishing, Ltd.
Publication date: 08/16/2004
Pages: 128
Product dimensions: 6.00(w) x 6.00(h) x (d)

About the Author

Mary L. Martin Postcards is a three-generation family business and the largest postcard operation in the world. E. Ashley Rooney has written many non-fiction books on architecture, interior design, and gardens, especially in New England where she lives.

Tina Skinner has authored and edited numerous books on architecture and design.
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