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Excerpt from: 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.... |  Read Full Text |
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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 | |
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| 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." |