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Title: [Curiosities]
Description: Genre scene shows a room full of relics with items hanging on the wall in the background and scattered religious iconography, including a bible, on the floor. A man (a little person) sits on a desk smoking a pipe. A woman sits on the floor to his left., Title supplied by cataloger., Distributor's printed blue label pasted on verso., Buff mount with rounded corners., Cataloging funded by a grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities (PW-506-19-10), 2010-2012.
Date: [ca. 1870]
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department stereo - unidentified - Genre [P.9585.2]

Title: Dutton children.
Description: In Ballou's pictorial drawing-room companion, v. 16, no. 20 (May 14, 1859), p. 305., “The accompanying engraving of the already famous “Fairy Children” is from a drawing made expressly for us by Mr. Homer [i.e., Winslow Homer] ….”, Dollie Dutton, known as the “Little Fairy,” had a stage career as a singer and a dancer. She and her sister Etta performed together before Etta died at the age of eight., Full-length standing portraits of diminutive Etta and Dollie Dutton, with a significantly taller child standing between them.
Date: [1859?]

Title: From Barnum's Museum Assembly Buildings corner Chestnut & Tenth Sts Tuesday evening, Sept. 27, '64 for one day only. Miss Anna Swan the Nova Scotia giant girl! Seventeen yrs. of age! Over eight feet high and still growing! ... In contrast with this extraordinary giantess, who, like the giants of old, stood a head and shoulder above the people, we have Gen. Grant, Jr. Gen. Grant, Jr. The least of all little men! ... We also have the pleasure of introducing the wonderful albino children now making a tour of the middle and western states. ... Open at all hours, day and evening, from 10 o'clock, A.M., to 10 P.M. Admission, 30 cents Children under 10 years, 15 cts
Description: One illustration signed: Waters-Son., Originally part of a McAllister scrapbook., Digitized by Alexander Street Press for Images of the American Civil War.
Creator: Assembly Buildings (Philadelphia, Pa.)
Date: [1864]
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Books & Other Texts | Rare PB Phi Assembly 1864 (6)5761.F.20a (McAllister)

Title: Hatch sisters
Description: In American Sentinel (May 28, 1824), p. [1]., Three identical busts representing Hannah, Rebecca, and Abigail Hatch., “A very interesting Natural Curiosity, to be seen from 10 A.M. to 9 P.M. at the Masonic Hall, Chesnut street. Admittance 25 cents. It sometimes happens ... that ... there is a remarkable diminution in the human form. This inferiority of stature is ... exemplified ... in the case of three women, Hannah, Rebecca, and Abigail Hatch. They are daughters of the same father and mother, (who were of the ordinary size) and born at Falmouth ... Massachusetts.... their ages [are] between 25 and 40 years – and their height between 36 and 42 inches.”
Date: [May 28, 1824]

Title: Horticultural Hall West Chester, Pa. Friday and Saturday eve'ngs, Oct. 2d and 3d, 1863 and Saturday afternoon Tom Thumb and wife outdone by Commodore Foote & sister who have been received with unbounded satisfaction by the clergy, press and public, throughout the western states and South America. Ellinger & Newcomb's great moral exhibition! in conjunction with C. Lavallee's parlor opera! having completed the most successful three weeks' engagement ever played in Baltimore, will open as above this mammoth double entertainment for one night only ... Entire change of programme each performance. Grand select matinee, Saturday afternoon, for the especial aceommodation [sic] of ladies and children. Children, under 12 years, to afternoon concerts, 15 cents Tickets, 25 cents Doors open at 2 and 7 o'clock. Concert begins at 3 and 8
Description: Performers include: Miss M.C. Ellinger, William Ellinger, W.B. Harrison, Joseph Huntler (Colonel Small), J.H. Murphy, Charles Nestel (Commodore Foote), Eliza Nestel, Willie D. Nestel, and J.D. Newcomb., Library Company copy cropped at foot, probably removing imprint; originally part of a McAllister scrapbook., Digitized by Alexander Street Press for Images of the American Civil War.
Creator: Ellinger & Newcomb
Date: [1863]
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Books & Other Texts | Rare PB 1863 Ellinger (25)5761.F.101a (McAllister)

Title: Leach, Emma, b. 1719.
Description: In Ames, Nathaniel. An astronomical diary, or, Almanack for the year of our Lord Christ 1772 (Boston, 1771), p. [1]., Miss Emma Leach, a dwarf, was exhibited in Boston in 1771., Full-length portrait of the dwarf seated on a chair., “The following short description of the extraordinary person who lately made her appearance in this town, may not be disagreeable to our readers, although it may not be so particular, as the curious would desire, as she would not admit of an accurate examination.”--P. [2]., Another portrait appears in: Ames, Nathaniel. An astronomical diary, or, Almanack for the year of our Lord Christ 1772 (New London, 1771), p. [1]., Portrait appears as one of three engravings in the almanac. Although all three are unsigned, two are attributed to Paul Revere as an entry in his day book refers to engraving plates for an Ames almanac. It remains unclear which two of the three are Revere engravings. Cf. Brigham, Clarence S. Paul Revere’s engravings (Worcester, Mass., 1954), p. 135-136.
Date: [1771?]
Location: http://www.librarycompany.org/extraordinarywoman/dwarf.htm

Title: Marriage of Tom Thumb
Description: Series of six cartes-de-visite size engravings of portraits and scenes from the February 10, 1863 New York City marriage of P.T. Barnum's Little People entertainers Charles Stratton, known as Tom Thumb, and Lavinia Warren. Includes: the ceremony; the couple; the attendants, fellow Little People entertainers Commodore Nutt, and Lavinia's sister, Minnie Warren; the "Reception"; the following morning "At Home" with the seated couple attended by an African American man servant, attired in a white collared shirt, a black bowtie, a gray waistcoat, and a black suit jacket and pants, who carries a tray; and a "Promenade" down Broadway. The wedding, paid for and heavily promoted by Barnum, attracted the social and political elite of New York., Title from series title., Date inferred from content., Series numbers and captions handwritten on verso., Manuscript note on recto of five of the series: Mr. & Mrs. Stratton., Possibly after Mathew B. Brady., Originally part of a McAllister scrapbook of portraits. McAllister Collection, gift, 1886., Description revised 2021., Access points revised 2021., Part of digital collections catalog through a grant from the Institute of Museum and Library Services as administered by the Pennsylvania Department of Education through the Office of Commonwealth Libraries, and the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania, Tom Corbett, Governor, 2013-2014.
Date: [ca. 1863]
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department cdv portraits - sitter - Thumb [5750.F.59a-e;(2)5750.F.169f]

Title: National Hall! Chester, Pa. Thursday afternoon & evening, Oct. 1, '63 Tom Thumb and wife outdone by Commodore Foote & sister who have been received with unbounded satisfaction by the clergy, press and public, throughout the western states and South America. Ellinger & Newcomb's great moral exhibition! in conjunction with C. Lavallee's parlor opera! having completed the most successful three weeks' engagement ever played in Baltimore, will open as above this mammoth double entertainment for one night only ... Entire change of programme each performance. Grand select matinee, Thursday afternoon for the especial aceommodation [sic] of ladies and children. Children, under 12 years, to afternoon concerts, 15 cents Tickets, 25 cents Doors open at 2 and 7 o'clock. Concert begins at 3 and 8
Description: Performers include: Miss M.C. Ellinger, William Ellinger, W.B. Harrison, Joseph Huntler (Colonel Small), J.H. Murphy, Charles Nestel (Commodore Foote), Eliza Nestel, Willie D. Nestel, and J.D. Newcomb., Originally part of a McAllister scrapbook., Digitized by Alexander Street Press for Images of the American Civil War.
Creator: Ellinger & Newcomb
Date: [1863]
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Books & Other Texts | Rare PB 1963 Ellinger (25)5761.F.99b (McAllister)

Title: Warner's safe rheumatic cure
Description: Trade card showing a girl attending to a man with dwarfism, seated on a chair, and with his two wrapped feet resting on an ottoman. She hands him a bottle of Warner's Safe Rheumatic Cure. Image also shows the box for the cure in the lower right corner. H. H. Warner, entered the patent medicine trade in 1879, and expanded his line of products to include the Safe Rheumatic Cure in 1885. The marketing of his "Safe" cure usually alluded to its benefits to persons whose health was already in peril., Cataloging funded by a grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities (PW-506-19-10), 2010-2012., Gift of William H. Helfand.
Date: [ca. 1885]
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department Helfand Misc. Popular Medicine Collection [P.2010.36.7]

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