Midget Exhibit: Images from the Heyday of Dwarf Display / Images From The Heyday Of Dwarf Display P. van der Dit was tot nu toe

Dit was tot nu toe niemand gelukt

as one of the three artists who helped to define the revolutionary developments in the plastic arts in the opening decades of the 20th century

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Midget Exhibit: Images from the Heyday of Dwarf Display / Images From The Heyday Of Dwarf Display P. van der Dit was tot nu toeIn the mid 1800s, inveterate showman salesman P. T. Barnum introduced a real life Tom Thumb and spawned a huge movement of midget exhibits. Little people were paraded en masse throughout Europe and the New World, earning fame and fortune as the central attractions in a freak show phenomenon that lasted well over a century. Explore this little world in postcard mementoes from an era when the unabashedly curious feasted their eyes on the unusual.