Library Collections: Visual Still: Enlargement

Illustrations of wedding gifts, including a mechanical bird given by P.T. Barnum.



Visual Still Information

Title: Mechanical Bird And Box
From: Sketch Of The Life, Personal Appearance, Character And Manners Of Charles S. Stratton, The Man In Miniature, Known As General Tom Thumb, And His Wife, Lavinia Warren Stratton; Including The History Of Their Courtship And Marriage, With Some Account Of Remarkable Dwarfs, Giants, & Other Human Phenomena, Of Ancient And Modern Times, And Songs Given At Their Public Levees
Original caption: Exquisite Mechanical Bird and Box, presented by P.T. Barnum.; Diamond Hair??? presented by General Tom Thumb to his wife.
Creator: n/a
Date: 1863
Publisher: Press of Wynkoop & Hallenbeck, New York
Source: Robert Bogdan Collection