£75
Photography, Victorian Dwarfism - a pair of carte-de-visite sepia photograph portraits, comprising the "Greatest wonder of the Age!" Lucía Zárate (1864-1890; the sideshow performer and the "Lightest Recorded Adult") and "General Mite, 16 Years Old, Weighs Nine Pounds" (Francis Joseph Flynn, 1864 - 1898; circus and 'freak' show performer), by the London Stereoscopic Co., each titled to verso and printed with anthropological notes, red-ruled borders, each 10.5cm x 6.3cm, [2]
In 1884, Flynn married English woman Millie Edwards, with the couple being exhibited as The Royal American Midgets, and General and Mrs Mite.
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