Midget Smoking Cigarette, 1924 #1
by Science Source
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Midget Smoking Cigarette, 1924 #1
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Science Source
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The first organized touring Coolidge Marching Club to work for the nomination of the president comes to Washington Sunday morning. It is composed of 25 European midgets, headed by I.S. Rose, New Englander and impresario. The midgets wear buttons and ribbons on which is inscribed Coolidge 1925. Midgets have always been popular entertainers. P. T. Barnum indirectly helped popularize the term "midget" when he began featuring General Tom Thumb, Lavinia Warren and Commodore Nutt in his circus. "Midget" became linked to referencing short people put on public display for curiosity and sport. Photographed by Bain News Service, May 6, 1910.
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