[Mr. and Mrs. Tom Thumb and daughter]

[Mr. and Mrs. Tom Thumb and daughter]

Photograph

Attributed to Mathew B. Brady

Maker
American, ca. 1823–1896

[Mr. and Mrs. Tom Thumb and daughter]

ca. 1865
Albumen silver print
Image: 8.9 x 5.4 cm
Mount: 10 x 6.1 cm
Inscriptions verso (pencil): E.25.
(applied printed label): Mrs. Tom Thumb
Dies After Long
Illness, at 77

Middleboro, Mass., Nov. 25.-- Countess
Primo Magri, known to the general pub
lic as Mrs. Tom Thumb and one of the
best known Liliputians in the world,
died here in her home to-day after a long
illness. She was 77 years old and had
traveled around the world several
times, under the management of the late
P. T. Barnum.
Countess Magri was the daughter of
James S. and Hulda Bump and of Revo
lutionary stock. Count Magri, her hus-
band survives.
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