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020 _a9780819573322
020 _z9780819573315 (cloth : alk. paper)
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_cMdBmJHUP
050 0 0 _aPN2287.T475
_bL45 2013
082 0 0 _a791.092
_aB
_223
100 1 _aLehman, Eric D.
245 1 0 _aBecoming Tom Thumb
_h[electronic resource] :
_bCharles Stratton, P. T. Barnum, and the dawn of American celebrity /
_cEric D. Lehman.
260 _aMiddletown, Connecticut :
_bWesleyan University Press,
_c2013.
_e(Baltimore, Md. :
_fProject MUSE,
_g2015)
300 _a1 online resource (pages cm.)
490 0 _aThe driftless Connecticut series
504 _aIncludes bibliographical references and index.
505 0 _aPrologue: 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.
588 _aDescription based on print version record.
600 1 0 _aBarnum, P. T.
_q(Phineas Taylor),
_d1810-1891.
600 1 0 _aThumb, Tom,
_d1838-1883.
650 0 _aCircus performers
_zUnited States
_vBiography.
650 0 _aDwarfs
_zUnited States
_vBiography.
650 0 _aEntertainers
_zUnited States
_vBiography.
655 7 _aElectronic books.
_2local
710 2 _aProject Muse.
856 4 0 _zFull text available:
_uhttps://muse.jhu.edu/books/9780819573322/
942 _2Dewey Decimal Classification
_ceBooks
999 _c34125
_d34125