Magazine clipping
Category
Ephemera
Date
Unknown
Materials
Glass, Paper, Wood
Measurements
1977 x 212 mm
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National Trust Carriage Museum
NT 272687.1
Summary
One of two articles about Charles Stratton (1838–1883), also known as 'General Tom Thumb'. in a single frame. Entitled 'General Tom Thumb and his Bride', the article shows a photograph of Stratton and his wife, Mercy Lavinia Warren Stratton, née Bump (1842– 1919) on their wedding day. Taken from Country Life Magazine, dated 17 March 1944. 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’.