Identifier: harpersyoungpeop00newy1883 (find matches)
Title: Harper's young people
Year: 1879 (1870s)
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Subjects: Children's periodicals, American
Publisher: New York : Harper & Bros.
Contributing Library: New York Public Library
Digitizing Sponsor: MSN

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VOL. iv.—xo. 1%. Tuesday, July :il, i PUBLISHED BY HARPER A: MROTIIKRS. X.:w IKKE FIVE CENTS. \ HAKI-IK & P.ROTIIKKS. Jl.Mi IHT Year, in Advance.
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THE WEDDI.Ni; PAHTY.—FKOM A PHOTOGRAPH TAKEN IMMEDIATELY AFTEK THE GENERAL TOM THUMB. BY ELIOT McCOUMICK. OVER forty years ago a lady from Waterford, NewYork, who was visiting Hartford, Connecticut, toldthis bit of experience to her friends there: When I was hi Bridgeport last week,she said, Isaw the tinest, funniest little fellow in the world. Thefriends whom I was visiting wanted me to go to a chil-drens school to see the smallest boy that ever attended any school. I went, and the school - mistress called up Charlie, when a mite of a fellow came and stood on herheld-out hands and recited his letters. This little fellow was Charles Sherwood Stratton, after-ward known as General Tom Thumb, and the story givesa good idea of his size and the impression he made onpeople when he first came before the public. It was inNovember, 1842, that Mr. Barnum discovered him at hishome in Bridgeport, Connecticut, and a few weeks laterthat he made his appearance in New York. He was 610 HARPERS YOUNG

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