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Author Lehman, Eric D.

Title Becoming Tom Thumb : Charles Stratton, P. T. Barnum, and the dawn of American celebrity / Eric D. Lehman.

Publication Info. Middletown, Connecticut : Wesleyan University Press, 2013.

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Description 1 online resource (273 pages)
text rdacontent
computer rdamedia
online resource rdacarrier
Series The driftless Connecticut series
Driftless Connecticut series.
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index.
Contents Prologue: playing The palace -- The boy from Bridgeport -- At the American Museum -- Prince Charles the First -- Buttons, bullfights, and balloons -- Hop o' my thumb -- Heart of a child -- On the New York stage -- The measure of a man -- The wedding of the year -- The long and short of it -- A very strange honeymoon -- Tom Thumb's America -- Around the world -- At the helm -- A marriage and two funerals -- The great fire -- At Mountain Grove.
Note Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (ebrary, viewed October 18, 2013).
Subject Barnum, P. T. (Phineas Taylor), 1810-1891.
Thumb, Tom, 1838-1883.
Circus performers -- United States -- Biography.
Dwarfs -- United States -- Biography.
Entertainers -- United States -- Biography.
Genre/Form Electronic books.
ISBN 9780819573315
9780819573322 (electronic bk.)

 
    
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