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(CUBA.) Noticias biograficas de la enana alemana Doña Elena Briggs, la muger mas chiquita del mundo. Full-page engraving on rear wrapper, carte-de-visite photograph laid down on inner rear wrapper. 32 pages. 8vo, worn original printed rear wrapper, lacking front wrapper; soiling to title page, moderate dampstaining, bottom corner of final leaf excised with slight loss of text. Havana, 1857
The story of Ellen Suter Briggs, alleged to be the world's smallest woman, born in Germany in 1821, who settled in Ohio in 1830 with her father and then toured America as a circus attraction. This Spanish-language pamphlet describes her friendship with famous performers Major Stevens and Tom Thumb, and concludes with several pages of translated press notices from American newspapers; however, we have found no record of her career in other sources. The inserted photograph depicts Charles Sherwood Stratton a.k.a. General Tom Thumb and his wife Lavinia Warren Stratton circa 1863. Not in OCLC or Palau, and no other copies traced.
