Portrait of Tom Thumb and Lavinia Warren with Baby, circa 1865
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Artifact Overview
Actress Lavinia Warren and circus performer Charles Stratton--known as General Tom Thumb-- worked for showman P.T. Barnum and were major celebrities in the mid-1800s. Their 1863 wedding was front-page news. After the wedding, the couple would pose for publicity photographs with infants to suggest that they had a family, but the couple never had children of their own.
Artifact Details
Artifact
Photographic print
Subject Date
circa 1865
Collection Title
Location
By Request in the Benson Ford Research Center
Object ID
00.1307.5.2
Credit
From the Collections of The Henry Ford.
Material
Paper (Fiber product)
Technique
Gelatin silver process
Color
Black-and-white (Colors)
Dimensions
Height: 6.375 in
Width: 4.5 in
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