Midget Exhibit

Midget Exhibit Images from the Heyday of Dwarf Display

Hardback (16 Aug 2004)

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Publisher's Synopsis

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.

Book information

ISBN: 9780764321146
Publisher: Schiffer Publishing, Ltd.
Imprint: Schiffer Publishing
Pub date:
DEWEY: 599.949
DEWEY edition: 22
Language: English
Number of pages: 128
Weight: 360g
Height: 154mm
Width: 150mm
Spine width: 16mm