Midget Exhibit: Images From The Heyday Of Dwarf Display - Couverture rigide

Martin, Mary L.; Skinner, Tina

 
9780764321146: Midget Exhibit: Images From The Heyday Of Dwarf Display

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.

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À propos des auteurs

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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