Midget Exhibit: Images from the Heyday of Dwarf Display / Images From The Heyday Of Dwarf Display van Hooff De Lourdesschool

De Lourdesschool

Dr Jerry Toner

De manier waarop Churchill ruziede met zijn schilder zegt iets over de politieke verhoudingen na de Tweede Wereldoorlog

C'est du fait d'une blessure aux ménisques qu'il dut mettre un terme à sa carrière1

Midget Exhibit: Images from the Heyday of Dwarf Display / Images From The Heyday Of Dwarf Display van Hooff De LourdesschoolIn 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 unusual.