Japanese Tommy : the celebrated negro comedian and burlesque prima donna, the most wonderful specimen of black humanity in existence, thirty-five years of age, and only thirty-six inches high, "The Tom Thumb of Africa", will appear at each presentation.

Date:
[between 1855 and 1865?]

Licence: Public Domain Mark

Credit: Japanese Tommy : the celebrated negro comedian and burlesque prima donna, the most wonderful specimen of black humanity in existence, thirty-five years of age, and only thirty-six inches high, "The Tom Thumb of Africa", will appear at each presentation. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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