| Abstract/Description |
The collection contains playbills, handbills, programmes, music sheet covers, drawings, lithographs, photographs, newspaper and periodical cuttings, letters and personal ephemera relating to the career of Charles Sherwood Stratton - popularly known as General Tom Thumb. The material also refers to Stratton's wife, Lavinia Warren and fellow performers Minnie Lavina Warren (Lavina's younger sister) and George Washington Morrision 'Commodore' Nutt, and their exhibitor, Phineas T Barnam. The collection was made by Bert Shevelove. |
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