30125.
5317. Mrs. Gen. Tom Thumb, and Carriage, presented her by Queen Victoria.
Little People
30126.
Tom Thumb and wife, Commodore Nutt and wife. Small stereoview measures 2.5″ x 5.125.”
30127.
The Fairy Wedding Party. Mr. & Mrs. Genl. Tom Thumb, Commodore Nutt and Miss Winnie Warren. Feb. 10, 1863.
30128.
2203. The Fairy Bridesmaid, Minnie Warren.
30129.
2945. Gen. Tom Thumb’s Wife & Child.
30130.
2201. The Fairy Bride and Bridegroom.
30131.
2217. Commodore Nutt. 3-cent tax stamp on verso.
30132.
2218. The Fairy Bridesmaid.
30133.
2215. The Fairy Wedding Party.
30134.
The Marriage of Gen’l Tom Thumb. (From Photographic Negative by Brady.)
30135.
The Marriage of Gen’l Tom Thumb. (From Photographic Negative by Brady.)
30136.
An older Tom Thumb and Lavinia Warren.
30137.
Prominent Portraits. No. 4751. Major Charles Colvin, height 23 in., weight only 12 lbs. He is being held by the giantess Anna Swan.
30138.
Prominent Portraits. No. 4617. Major Charles Colvin, height 23 in., weight only 12 lbs. According to Kunhardt, P.T. Barnum, America’s Greatest Showman, page 173, the man at left is John Drummond and on right is “Professor Cromwell.” Barnum often added the titled ‘Professor’ to the names of his employees.
30139.
446. The Giant and Dwarf.
30140.
Henry Baker, 22 years old, 3 feet, 4 in. high. George Henderson, 6 feet, 4 in. Phoenix, N.Y.
30141.
6. A famous Japanese dwarf, Yokohama.
30142.
90. The Living Phenomenon, Gueritaro.
30310.
The long and short of India at the Durbar-Cashmere Giant (7 ft. 9 in.) and Patiala midget (28 in.), Delhi. Photographer Ricalton stands in the view.
30314.
The Three Sisters. Aama, the Giantess and Princess Josepha, Midget. The French giantess, Alma Bataillard (1876-1893) took the stage name of Lady Aama. Her advertised height was 8 feet, but in reality she was about 6′ 8.”
30383.
Zamora, Triple-Jointed Wonder. Major Zamora was a dime museum performer in the late 1890s. Born in St. Johns, Zamora was a physical dwarf who specialized in feats of contortionism and enterology (squeezing into impossibly small spaces, or getting inside a sealed container without disturbing it) and, as an offshoot of this, was a feature escape artist before the advent of Houdini. He was billed, alternately, as “The Triple-jointed Dwarf” and “The Triple-jointed Wonder.” His ad hype claimed he was ‘triple-jointed’ in all the connections of his body. Zamora performed in circus acrobat tights, and sported the large handlebar moustache so common in men’s grooming of the 1890s. Zamora stood 32 inches in height and weighed 54 pounds. Zamora’s features were squeezing himself in and out of an oversized, but still quite small, bottle, and escaping after being tied, chained, handcuffed and locked inside a small, upright box. Zamora is referred to in Panorama of Magic by Milbourne Christopher, and in Learned Pigs and Fireproof Women by Ricky Jay. Zamora married Tina Goughman, who was billed as the “smallest living woman” and was 4 inches taller than the Major.
30512.
Commodore Foote and Colonel Small. I believe the man at center is their manager, Ellinger.
30514.
Sir William Wallace, the Scottish Dwarf. 17 years old-28 inches high-weighs 34 lbs.
30515.
Unidentified Little Person.
30610.
Gen. Tom Thumb.
30611.
Major Tot, the Wonderful Human Midget! Age 16 Yrs. Weight only 10 1/2 lbs. Major Tot’s actual name was Pierre Albert Poitras, born in Fitchburg, Massachusetts in 1869. He was hired by P.T. Barnum and billed as “The world’s smallest perfectly developed man.” He eventually grew to a height of 3.5 feet, weighed ninety pounds and wore a child’s size 5 shoe. His father is said to have transported him to engagements in a 14″ satchel.
30612.
William Wallace, the Scottish Dwarf. 15 years old; 23 inches high; weighs 24 lbs. Now at Barnum’s Museum.
30613.
Admiral Dot. Thirteen years old; Twenty-five inches high, Weighs only fifteen pounds.
30661.
The Murray Midgets, John, James, & Joseph.
30662.
The Little Esquimaux Lady, Miss Olof Krarer. Age, 29 years. Height, 40 inches. Weight, 120 lbs.
30663.
The Little Esquimaux Lady, Miss Olof Krarer. Age, 31 years. Height, 40 inches. Weight, 120 lbs.
30704.
Col. Small and sister and Commodore Nutt.
30705.
Col. Small and sister.
30708.
George Washington Morrison Nutt (1844-1881), circa 1863.
30709.
The Marriage of Gen’l Tom Thumb.
30710.
General Tom Thumb and Wife, Commodore Nutt and Miss Minnie Warren, in the identical costumes worn before the Emperor Louis Napoleon and the Empress Eugenie, at the Palace of the Tuileries, Nov. 29, 1864.
30711.
General Tom Thumb and Wife, Commodore Nutt and Miss Minnie Warren, in the identical costumes worn before Her Majesty, Queen Victoria, at Windsor Castle, June 24, 1865.
30712.
Commodore Foote’s Dream.
30713.
Master Tony Lowande, Liliputian Wonder.
30714.
Gen. Cardenas.
30715.
Dudley Foster, Age 4 years. Weight 5 pounds.
30716.
“Compliments of Miss Jennie Quigley, Scottish Queen,” written on verso.
30717.
Nellie Keeler, as Little Queen Mab. 12 years of age, 28 inches high, weight 12 lbs.
Nellie Keeler (April 6, 1875 – 1903) was an American child circus performer known as Little Queen Mab. Nellie Keeler was born with dwarfism on April 6, 1875, in Kokomo, Indiana. She was the youngest of three daughters and a son raised by Ezra and Maria Keeler. Her father was a farmer and a Civil War veteran, having served with the 4th Indiana Cavalry. Ezra Keeler died in 1917 while in his seventies at a home for disabled war veterans in Marion, Indiana. Maria Keeler lived to be in her late eighties, and died in 1937 in Kokomo. By the age of three Nellie Keeler came to the attention of P. T. Barnum through local press articles about her diminutive stature. Nellie weighed only eleven pounds and stood just a few inches over two feet. After a successful four-week tryout in 1878 she began touring with Barnum’s circus, along with the company of her father, as the “sweet girl with radiant golden hair.” Barnum placed her on a stage a few feet above the floor in a fashionable blue cashmere costume and short skirt. Next to her sat Colonel Routh Goshen, a man Barnum claimed stood nearly eight foot tall and weighed over six hundred pounds. Nellie’s contract with Barnum stipulated bad childhood behavior could void her contract and deprive her family of a potential income of a hundred dollars a month. Nellie’s employment with Barnum came to an end when by the age of twelve she was no longer a tiny little girl. Over her short six-year career Nellie was billed as “a microscopic bud of humanity,” “a little elf,” “a fairy beauty,” a “pocket volume of humanity” and “the Indiana Midget.” Nellie’s circus income enabled her father to become an independent farmer, free of mortgage. Her obituary, which appeared in the June 18, 1903, issue of the New York Times, stated she died at age twenty-eight from tuberculosis at her residence near Versailles, Indiana, and that she had been in declining health since her teens.
30718.
Admiral Dot. Thirteen years old; Twenty-five inches high; Weighs only fifteen pounds.
30719.
Admiral Dot. Age 23.
30720.
Gen. Chas. Decker. 23 Years Old-Height 31 inches-Weight 45 lbs.
30725.
The Little Esquimaux Lady, Miss Olof Krarer. Age, 30 years. Height, 40 inches. Weight, 120 lbs. (D)
30770.
Madam Minnie Shaw and Child.