Midget Exhibit: Images from the Heyday of Dwarf Display / Images From The Heyday Of Dwarf Display Portella Brigitte (1935–1981)

Brigitte (1935–1981)

How do we rebuild trust in our institutions and create a new

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Chieftaincy remains central to ongoing efforts at developing democracy and accountability in line with the expectations of Africans as individual 'citizens' and also as 'subjects' of various cultural communities

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Midget Exhibit: Images from the Heyday of Dwarf Display / Images From The Heyday Of Dwarf Display Portella Brigitte (1935–1981)In 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.