Description: Antique Victorian trade card. Die cut palette. Gen. Tom Thumb's Museum. Featuring Whiston in His Olio of Oddities. Whiston was a humorist & "facial artist" whose characters included the Yankee Phrenologer (in the stove-pipe hat) and Mrs. Partington (in the white bonnet), both pictured.
Advertising Text (front): Whiston in his Olio of Oddities with Gen. Tom Thumb's Museum. H.R. Jacobs, Manager.
Advertising Text (reverse): General Tom Thumb and his charming Little Wife, Entire Troupe, Nov. 20th one week only Low's Opera House every afternoon & evening. Skatorial Champion, Major Newell The Impersonator, Zoe Meleke and her performing canary birds, Whiston Humorist & Great Facial Artist, Marvelous Midget, Bingham Ventriloquist & Illusionist with a Congress of Brilliants.
Approximate Size (in inches): 3 x 4
Lithographer: Ballin & Liebler
Condition: Nice condition. Two very small rips at edge. Please examine images supplied for better representation of condition.
