An abnormally tall and an abnormally small man: the former about to light the latter's cigarette. Photograph, 1927.

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1927
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34310i
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An abnormally tall and an abnormally small man: the former about to light the latter's cigarette. Photograph, 1927. Wellcome Collection. In copyright. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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1 photograph : photoprint, silver gelatin ; sheet 14.8 x 9.5 cm

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Gigantism and ateleiosis. This photograph is a picture postcard illustrating a performance in Tiny Town, Olympia, (January, 1927). ... Lettering typed and attached separately to mount. Continues: "Both individuals are adults. The one who is abnormally tall is a case of pituitary gigantism. The hyper-pituitarism occurred before union of epiphyses had taken place. The abnormally small individual is well proportioned, and is able to wear well cut clothes. This proportioned dwarfism, so unlike achondroplasia, is ateleiosis"

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Wellcome Collection 34310i

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