Major Mite
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Major Mite

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Photograph

Major Mite

ca. 1890
Gelatin silver print
12.8 x 9.0 cm. image on 16.7 x 11.1 cm. mount
Museum accession
1981.4066.0002
Inscriptions recto-(printed on mount below image) "Royal Photo. Co." "229 Bowery,
New York."
(in pencil) "Major Mite."
verso-(printed) "Major Mite, The Smallest Man of the Age, at the
Boston Zoo for a Brief Engagement, Commencing Monday, April 12."
"Charles F. Atkinson, Frank C. Bostock, - Proprietors and Managers."
"A pocket Edition of the Famous Albert Chevalier, 'London Coster.' -
N.Y. World."
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