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Midget Exhibit : Images from the Heyday of Dwarf Display

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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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Schiffer Publishing Ltd
0764321145 / 9780764321146
Hardback
599.949
16/08/2004
United States
English
128 pages, 22 images
152 x 152 mm, 59 grams