1885 MRS. TOM THUMB COUNT & BARON MAGRI CABINET CARD Circus Performers PT BARNUM

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c.1885 CABINET CARD PHOTOGRAPH OF MRS. TOM THUMB, COUNT, AND BARON MAGRI
CABINET CARD PHOTOGRAPH OF MRS. TOM THUMB, COUNT MAGRI, AND BARON MAGRI.
New York: C[harles] Eisenmann Photo Artist, [No Date, but circa 1885]. Cabinet card photograph, measuring 5.5 x 3.75 inches, on original printed cardstock mount, with scalloped edge (c. 6.25 x 4 inches). Very good condition, with light spotting to image, light wear to extremities of mount.
Mrs. Tom Thumb, born Mercy Lavinia Warren Bump (1841-1918), was a world famous American woman with dwarfism, who performed for P. T. Barnum, including the traveling circus and the Barnum American Museum in New York City. She married Tom Thumb (born Charles Stratton) in 1863. Count and Baron Magri were born Primo and Ernesto Magri in Bologna, Italy. Their titles were granted them by Pope Pius IX. They traveled to the United States and performed. In 1885, two years after Tom Thumb's death, The Count married Lavinia Warren, Tom Thumb's widow.
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