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.
William Wallace, the Scottish Dwarf. 15 years old; 23 inches high; weighs 24 lbs. Now at Barnum’s Museum.
Admiral Dot. Thirteen years old; Twenty-five inches high, Weighs only fifteen pounds.
Unidentified performing dogs.
Bearded clown.
Clown and costumed female performer.
6756. Who could not be happy, Atlantic City.
8283. The magnificent Ferris Wheel, Midway Plaisance, Columbian Exposition.
8284. The Ferris Wheel, Midway Plaisance, Columbian Exposition.
8284. The Ferris Wheel, Midway Plaisance, Columbian Exposition.
8285. Near view of the Ferris Wheel, Midway Plaisance, Columbian Exposition.
8286. Looking up at the Ferris Wheel, Midway Plaisance, Columbian Exposition.
8380. Midway’s thorough-bred, Columbian Exposition. Buffalo Bill and Native-American at left mid-ground.
8480. The Wonder of the Age, Midway Plaisance, World’s Columbian Exposition.
9151. Looking, Moving Heavenward, World’s Columbian Exposition.
9152. The Giant that towers above them all, World’s Columbian Exposition.
9423. The Ferris Wheel, Canada’s Great Industrial Fair, Toronto.
10780. The Pony Mathematician.
10804. View from the Phoenix Wheel, Atlanta Exposition.
16177. The Great Ferris Wheel at the La. Purchase Exposition, St. Louis, Mo.
16385. Where the water lillies grow, La. Purchase Exposition.
16386. The Observation Wheel, La. Purchase Exposition.
The New York to St. Louis Automobile Parade, Louisiana Purchase Exposition.
Louisiana Purchase Exposition. The Great Ferris Wheel.
The Great Ferris Wheel-World’s Fair, St. Louis.
208-The Great Ferris Wheel at the World’s Fair, St. Louis, Mo. (X above car shows where wedding took place.)
209-World’s Fair Wedding Party on top of Ferris Wheel Car Pronounced Man and Wife and photographed at the highest point, St. Louis, Mo.
The Great Ferris Wheel, A Feature of the Columbian Exposition Rebuilt. World’s Fair, St. Louis, 1904.
8498. The Ferris Wheel from the grounds of the Agricultural Building, Louisiana Purchase Exposition, St. Louis.
8499. One of the miniature trains carrying passengers about the grounds, Louisiana Purchase Exposition, St. Louis, Mo.
8503. Walls of Jerusalem and the Ferris Wheel looking from West Restaurant Pavilion, Louisiana Purchase Exposition, St. Louis.
8531. Great Ferris Wheel, 250 ft. in diameter, Louisiana Purchase Exposition, St. Louis.
8585. The Ferris Wheel from Gardens of the French Pavilion, Louisiana Purchase Exposition, St. Louis.
10304. Scenes in the Swiss Village, Paris Exposition of 1900.
10310. Looking through the “Big Wheel of Paris,” Paris Exposition of 1900.
11717-The Ferris Wheel, Paris Exposition, 1900.
2340-The Ferris Wheel, Chicago, Ill.
2117-The Ferris Wheel, 310 ft. high, Earls Court, London, England.
15067-Ferris Wheel from Balcony of Illinois Building, Louisiana Purchase Exposition, St. Louis, Mo.
15070-Front of Illinois Building and the Ferris Wheel, Louisiana Purchase Exposition, St. Louis, Mo.
15210-Jerusalem and the Ferris Wheel from Balcony of West Pavilion, Louisiana Purchase Exposition, St. Louis, Mo.
15237-M.W.A. Parade, Temple of Fraternity and Ferris Wheel, Louisiana Purchase Exposition, St. Louis, Mo.
Biggest wheel on earth (240 ft. diam.) with heaviest axle ever forged (56 tons), World’s Fair, St. Louis.
Biggest wheel on earth (240 ft. diam.) with heaviest axle ever forged (56 tons), World’s Fair, St. Louis.
Giant steel cobwebs of the 240 ft. Ferris wheel, seen from one of its cars, World’s Fair, St. Louis.
Miniature railroad under the Ferris Wheel-contrasted sights at the World’s Fair, St. Louis.
Ferris wheel, 340 ft. diam., and crowds watching work of a “life-saving” crew, World’s Fair, St. Louis.
1094. Atlantic City. The New Boardwalk, North.
368. Sutro Heights Park & Wheel, Cal. Firth Wheel, Merrie Way from 1894 Midwinter Fair.
London, the Great Wheel.
