General Tom Thumb [graphic]

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Description

Title: General Tom Thumb [graphic]
Contributor: N. Currier (Firm), publisher.
Clements C. Fry Collection of Medical Prints and Drawings (Yale Medical Library, Historical Library)
Published / Created: [1849]
Publication Place: New York
Publisher: Lith. and Pub. by N. Currier, entered according to the Act of Congress in the year of 1849 by N. Currier, in the Clerk's Office of the District Court of the Southern District of N.Y. 152 Nassau St Cor. of Spruce
Description: Title from item.
Place of publication derived from street address.
Original daguerreotype probably from a studio franchised by John Plumbe.
Image is surrounded by vignettes of Tom Thumb in a variety of roles and costumes.
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Provenance: Gift of Dr. Arnold Gesell; 1948 (1982).
Extent: 1 print : image and inscription 32.8 x 21.8 cm
Language: English

Genre: Lithographs
Aquatints
Material: lithograph ; and hand-colored.
Resource Type: still image
Subject (Name): Thumb, Tom, 1838-1883,
Subject (Topic): Dwarfism
Human curiosities
Dwarfs
Celebrities
Circus entertainers
Subjects: Thumb, Tom, 1838-1883
Dwarfism
Human curiosities
Dwarfs
Celebrities
Circus entertainers

Access: Public
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