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Dwarfs (Persons)

Images

  • The celebrated Mrs. Weston, six inches shorter than any woman travelling ... : also the Liliputian Dwarf, thirty years of age, and only thrity-two inches high ...
  • A male dwarf. Watercolour painting.
  • Chang Yu-sing the Chinese giant, with his wife, King-Foo and Chung Mow, a dwarf. Wood engraving, 1865.
  • S. Watson's Grand American Museum 28, Oxford Street : Living curiosities! From all parts of the world ...
  • The Royal American Midgets at the Piccadilly Hall : afternoon 2 till 5, evening 7 till 9.
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Catalogue

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    Minnie Warren's quadrille (sister of Mrs. Tom Thumb) / by Stephen Glover. Performed daily at Commodore Nutt's grand levée.

    Glover, Stephen, 1813-1870. | Date: [approximately 1870]
    • Ephemera
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    The long and the short of it : Nepalese aged 72 reaches the heights as the world's shortest ever man.

    | Date: 2012
    • Pictures
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    Two dwarfs: "Tom Thumb" (Charles Sherwood Stratton) (1838-1883) and his wife Lavinia Warren Stratton (1841-1919). Photograph, c. 1865.

    | Reference: 33492i
    • Books

    Chondrodystrophic dwarfs in Denmark : (supplemented with investigations from Sweden and Norway) with special reference to the inheritance of chondrodystrophy / by Ernst Trier Mørch.

    Mørch, Ernst Trier, 1908- | Date: 1941
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    Frank Uffner's marvellous midgets : the only midgets, the world's wonders! : Piccadilly Hall, opposite St. James's Church, Piccadilly : commencing Monday, Nov 22nd ...

    | Date: [1880]
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