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Author Lehman, Eric D.

Title Becoming Tom Thumb : Charles Stratton, P.T. Barnum, and the dawn of American celebrity / Eric D. Lehman.

Publication Info. Middletown, Connecticut : Wesleyan University Press, 2013.

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Description 1 online resource.
Physical Medium polychrome
Description text file
Series The driftless Connecticut series
Driftless Connecticut series.
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index.
Contents Prologue: playing The palace -- The boy from Bridgeport -- At the American Museum -- Prince Charles the First -- Buttons, bullfights, and balloons -- Hop o' my thumb -- Heart of a child -- On the New York stage -- The measure of a man -- The wedding of the year -- The long and short of it -- A very strange honeymoon -- Tom Thumb's America -- Around the world -- At the helm -- A marriage and two funerals -- The great fire -- At Mountain Grove.
Local Note eBooks on EBSCOhost EBSCO eBook Subscription Academic Collection - North America
Subject Thumb, Tom, 1838-1883.
Thumb, Tom, 1838-1883.
Barnum, P. T. (Phineas Taylor), 1810-1891.
Barnum, P. T. (Phineas Taylor), 1810-1891.
Thumb, Tom, 1838-1883.
Barnum, Phineas Taylor, 1810-1891.
Entertainers -- United States -- Biography.
Entertainers.
United States.
Genre/Form Biographies.
Subject Dwarfs -- United States -- Biography.
Circus performers -- United States -- Biography.
Circus performers.
Genre/Form Electronic books.
Biographies.
Other Form: Print version: 9780819573315 0819573310 (DLC) 2013015056
ISBN 0819573329 (electronic book)
9780819573322 (electronic book)
9780819573315 (cloth ; alkaline paper)
0819573310 (cloth ; alkaline paper)