Dwarfs (Persons)
Images from the collections
![[Leaflet advertising the "midgets' return to London": General Mite, his father, E.F. Flynn and Miss Millie Edwards at the Imperial Theatre, adjoining the Royal Aquarium, London (1882?). It has a cartoon of General Mite being arrested by two policemen].](https://iiif.wellcomecollection.org/image/b28550110_EPH_499B_64_0001.jp2/full/282%2C/0/default.jpg)
![[Illustrated ticket to an exhibition of Aztec Lilliputians from Iximaya in central America and the Earthmen or Erdmanniges from under the earth in South Africa. Possibly 1855. Printed in red on white paper].](https://iiif.wellcomecollection.org/image/b28479221_EPH_499A_16_0001.jp2/full/600%2C/0/default.jpg)
Works from the collections
402 works
- Ephemera
- Online
Minnie Warren's quadrille (sister of Mrs. Tom Thumb) / by Stephen Glover. Performed daily at Commodore Nutt's grand levée.
Stephen GloverDate: [approximately 1870]
- Ephemera
- Online
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
- Ephemera
- Online
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]