Dwarfism.- F.M. Uffner's Marvelous Midgets...At the Midget's Palace, Brighton Beach Bathing Pavilion. Coney Island. General Mite and Lucia Zarate...With the famous Liliputians Admiral Dot and Miss Jennie Quigley..., printed handbill, illustration, loss to upper corner affecting couple letters, few short tears without text loss, lightly browned, laid down on slightly larger paper with unrelated clippings to verso, playbill 210 x 127mm., New York, Torrey & Clark, 1879 [dated by hand in pencil] § Memoir, &c. of the German Dwarfs...The Brockstead Family..., printed broadside, ornamental border, some very slight toning or surface soiling, folds, 457 x 278mm., Frederick Turner, [1840s] § King of All Dwarfs...The Surprising Spanish Dwarf [likely Don Santiago de los Santos], printed handbill, few small nicks or very short tears to extremities, tipped onto paper, 183 x 122mm., July 26th 1833 [dated by hand in ink to head], the latter accompanied by 2 newspaper clippings relating to de los Santos laid down on paper; and 2 similar handbills, v.s. (5)
⁂ The first mentioned featuring four well-known 19th century performers with dwarfism. A Mexican national, Lucia Zarate still holds the title of the lightest recorded adult, weighing only 4.7 pounds (2.1 kg) at age 17 and 14 pounds (6.4 kg) at her peak at age 20.
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