Magazine clipping
Category
Ephemera
Date
1985
Materials
Glass, Paper, Wood
Measurements
1977 x 212 mm
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National Trust Carriage Museum
NT 272687
Summary
One of two articles about Charles Stratton, also known as 'General Tom Thumb' in a single frame. 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’.