The original and celebrated General Tom Thumb, the world-renowned American man in miniature : the smallest man alive ... is holding his farewell levees at the Town Hall Assembly Rooms Blackburn : on Friday & Saturday January 7th and 8th, 1859.

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<p>Poster advertising appearances of Charles Sherwood Stratton, General Tom Thumb.</p>

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The original and celebrated General Tom Thumb, the world-renowned American man in miniature : the smallest man alive ... is holding his farewell levees at the Town Hall Assembly Rooms Blackburn : on Friday & Saturday January 7th and 8th, 1859.

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