Midget Exhibit Carro sporting and oxford types

sporting and oxford types

Reels produced by famous manufacturers are shown

have been in the antiques business for over twenty-five years

and decorations

” a gallery for interior design that opened in Paris in 1896)

Midget Exhibit Carro sporting and oxford typesIn the mid 1800s, inveterate showman salesman P. T. Barnum introduced a real life Tom Thumb and spawned a huge movement of midget exhibits. Little people were paraded en masse throughout Europe and the New World, earning fame and fortune as the central attractions in a freak show phenomenon that lasted well over a century. Explore this little world in postcard mementoes from an era when the unabashedly curious feasted their eyes on the