Midget Exhibit: Images from the Heyday of Dwarf Display, by Mary L. Martin & Tina Skinner
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Midget Exhibit: Images from the Heyday of Dwarf Display, by Mary L. Martin & Tina Skinner. 2004 hardcover. 128 pages, very nice condition.
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.