Midget Exhibit - Images From The Heyday Of Dwarf Display

Informationen zum Autor 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. Klappentext 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. Zusammenfassung 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.

Product details

• Authors: Mary L. Martin, Mary L. Martin, Mary L. Martin, Tina Skinner, Tina (EDT)/ Martin Skinner
• Publisher: Schiffer Publishing
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 04.12.2004
• EAN: 9780764321146
• ISBN: 978-0-7643-2114-6
• No. of pages: 127
• Dimensions: 159 mm x 159 mm x 15 mm
• Subjects: Guides > Hobby, home > Collecting, collectors' catalogues; Humanities, art, music > Art > Antiques; Natural sciences, medicine, IT, technology