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The Reception Dress
The material is a superb quality of taffetas, changing from amber to a silvery white. The skirt, cut en traine; and ornamented to represent the emblems of different nationalities on each separate breadth....
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Title: The Reception Dress
From: Tom Thumb Wedding Series
Creator: n/a
Date: Circa 1865
Format: Photograph
Source: Syracuse Univ. Library, Special Collections
Control no.: Ronald G. Becker Collection of Chas. Eisenmann Photographs, Box 1
Location: No. 660
Keywords: Advertising; Charles Stratton, Tom Thumb; Employment; Entertainment; Entertainment, Leisure & Recreation; Exhibits; Family; Labor; Lavinia Warren; Marriage; Media; Phineas T. Barnum; Physical Disability; Popular Culture; Publicity; Short Stature
Topics: Mass Media, Culture & The Arts
Note: This is the text of the visual still, "Back of Mr. and Mrs. Gen. Tom Thumb with P.T. Barnum, Commodore Nutt, and Minnie Warren."


Objects From This Artifact:
- "Gen. Tom Thumb And Lady" (still)
- At Home (still)
- Back Of Mr. And Mrs. Gen. Tom Thumb With P.T. Barnum, Commodore Nutt, And Minnie Warren (still)
- Mr. And Mrs. Gen. Tom Thumb With P.T. Barnum, Commodore Nutt, And Minnie Warren (still)
- The Promenade (still)
- The Reception (still)
- The Reception Dress (doc)