Becoming Tom Thumb
Lehman, Eric D.
Becoming Tom Thumb Charles Stratton, P. T. Barnum, and the dawn of American celebrity / [electronic resource] : Eric D. Lehman. - Middletown, Connecticut : Wesleyan University Press, 2013. - 1 online resource (pages cm.) - The driftless Connecticut series .
Includes bibliographical references and index.
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.
9780819573322
Barnum, P. T. 1810-1891.
Thumb, Tom, 1838-1883.
Circus performers--United States--Biography.
Dwarfs--United States--Biography.
Entertainers--United States--Biography.
Electronic books.
PN2287.T475 / L45 2013
791.092 B
Becoming Tom Thumb Charles Stratton, P. T. Barnum, and the dawn of American celebrity / [electronic resource] : Eric D. Lehman. - Middletown, Connecticut : Wesleyan University Press, 2013. - 1 online resource (pages cm.) - The driftless Connecticut series .
Includes bibliographical references and index.
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.
9780819573322
Barnum, P. T. 1810-1891.
Thumb, Tom, 1838-1883.
Circus performers--United States--Biography.
Dwarfs--United States--Biography.
Entertainers--United States--Biography.
Electronic books.
PN2287.T475 / L45 2013
791.092 B