Midget Exhibit: Images from the Heyday of Dwarf Display

By Tina Skinner and Mary L. Martin

Book 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.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0764321145
• ISBN13: 9780764321146
• Release Date: August 2004
• Publisher: Schiffer Publishing
• Length: 128 Pages
• Weight: 0.82 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 6.0" x 6.0"