Midget Exhibit: Images from the Heyday of Dwarf Display

by Mary L. Martin

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.

128 pages, Hardcover

First published December 4, 2004

Reviews

[Kathy]

I wish the book had been bigger

[Matty · Rating 5 out of 5]

Very interesting pictures and costumes on every page