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

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Place / Publishing House:Middletown, Connecticut : : Wesleyan University Press,, 2013.
Year of Publication:2013
Language:English
Series:Driftless Connecticut series.
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Physical Description:1 online resource (273 pages)
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Becoming Tom Thumb : Charles Stratton, P. T. Barnum, and the dawn of American celebrity / Eric D. Lehman.
Middletown, Connecticut : Wesleyan University Press, 2013.
1 online resource (273 pages)
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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.
Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (ebrary, viewed October 18, 2013).
Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, MI : ProQuest, 2015. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest affiliated libraries.
Barnum, P. T. (Phineas Taylor), 1810-1891.
Thumb, Tom, 1838-1883.
Circus performers United States Biography.
Dwarfs United States Biography.
Entertainers United States Biography.
Electronic books.
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Driftless Connecticut series.
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Becoming Tom Thumb : Charles Stratton, P. T. Barnum, and the dawn of American celebrity /
The driftless Connecticut series
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.
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title Becoming Tom Thumb : Charles Stratton, P. T. Barnum, and the dawn of American celebrity /
title_sub Charles Stratton, P. T. Barnum, and the dawn of American celebrity /
title_full Becoming Tom Thumb : Charles Stratton, P. T. Barnum, and the dawn of American celebrity / Eric D. Lehman.
title_fullStr Becoming Tom Thumb : Charles Stratton, P. T. Barnum, and the dawn of American celebrity / Eric D. Lehman.
title_full_unstemmed Becoming Tom Thumb : Charles Stratton, P. T. Barnum, and the dawn of American celebrity / Eric D. Lehman.
title_auth Becoming Tom Thumb : Charles Stratton, P. T. Barnum, and the dawn of American celebrity /
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series The driftless Connecticut series
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publisher Wesleyan University Press,
publishDate 2013
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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.
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geographic_facet United States
era_facet 1810-1891.
1838-1883.
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