General Tom Thumb and Wife Lavinia Warren Posing with a Baby, 1863-1870
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Artifact Overview
The 1863 marriage of actress Lavinia Warren to circus performer Charles Stratton--known as General Tom Thumb--was front-page news. Publishers distributed cartes-de-visite featuring the famous couple. Cartes-de-visite, small photographic prints on cardboard stock, remained popular from the Civil War in the 1860s through the 1880s. Americans commonly collected and exchanged them to commemorate family members or celebrities.
Artifact Details
Artifact
Carte-de-visite (Card photograph)
Subject Date
1863-1870
Collection Title
Location
By Request in the Benson Ford Research Center
Object ID
93.51.11
Credit
From the Collections of The Henry Ford.
Material
Cardboard
Paper (Fiber product)
Technique
Albumen process
Mounting
Color
Black-and-white (Colors)
Dimensions
Height: 4 in
Width: 2.438 in
Inscriptions
Text at bottom of mount on front reads:
Tom Thumb, Wife and Baby
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