Photograph
Category
Photographs
Date
1985
Materials
Glass, Paper, Wood
Measurements
343 x 318 mm
Order this imageCollection
National Trust Carriage Museum
NT 272686
Summary
Photograph (framed) of the Coach belonging to Charles Stratton (also known as 'General Tom Thumb') in use on 18 August 1891, taken from a post card bought in New York. Stratton was born in the United States in Bridgeport, Connecticut on 4 January 1838, and died on 15 July 1883 in Middleboro, Massachusetts. Ultimately growing to a height of 40 inches (1 metre), he became famous under the name 'General Tom Thumb' while touring the United States and Europe as a star of P.T. Barnum’s ‘American Museum’.