Photograph from a Print, "Commodore Nutt and Minnie Warren," circa 1870

Artifact Overview

The 1863 marriage of actress Lavinia Warren and circus performer Charles Stratton--known as General Tom Thumb--was front-page news. This carte-de-visite depicts the bride's sister and maid of honor, Minnie Warren, with Stratton's best man, fellow circus performer George Washington Morrison "Commodore" Nutt. Americans collected and exchanged cartes-de-visite from the 1860s through the 1880s to commemorate family members and celebrities.

Artifact Details

Artifact

Carte-de-visite (Card photograph)

Subject Date

circa 1870

Collection Title

Research Center General Photograph Collection

Location

By Request in the Benson Ford Research Center

Object ID

93.51.10

Credit

From the Collections of The Henry Ford.

Material

Cardboard
Paper (Fiber product)

Technique

Albumen process
Mounting

Color

Black-and-white (Colors)

Dimensions

Height: 3.875 in
Width: 2.375 in

Inscriptions

Text under image on front: COM. NUTT AND MINNIE WARREN

Keywords	Cartes-de-visite (Card photographs) Card photographs (Photographs) Photographs Studio portraits Dwarfs Nutt, George Washington Morrison (Commodore), 1844-1881 Bump, Huldah Pierce Warren (Minnie), 1849-1878 Performing artists Prints (Visual works)