Ticket: Ticket for the Farewell Tour of Mrs. Gen. Tom Thumb and the Wonderful Liliputians
Unknown creator, American (created by)
Ernesto Magri (Baron Magri) (associated with)
M. Lavinia Warren (associated with)
Primo Magri (Count Magri) (associated with)
Ernesto Magri (Baron Magri) (associated with)
M. Lavinia Warren (associated with)
Primo Magri (Count Magri) (associated with)
1900 – 1910 (Date manufactured/created)
4.25 in H
X
2.5 in W
Ticket for the "Farewell Tour of the world renowned and original Mrs. Gen. Tom Thumb and the Wonderful Lilliputians." The faded orange color ticket is undated, but is most likely from the early 1900s. In the center of the ticket there is a sketched portrait of Mercy Lavinia Warren Stratton Magri, with her husband Count Primo Magri and brother-in-law, Baron Ernesto Magri on either side. Lavinia Magri was better known by her stage name, "Mrs. Gen. Tom Thumb." She married Magri after the death of her first husband, Charles S. Stratton, "Gen. Tom Thumb," but continued to use the stage name. Below the portraits the text reads "This card and 15 cents will admit a school child under 12 yrs of age to the Grand Family and School Matinee. See other publications for date and place of entertainment. Two performances daily." The reverse side features an image of Lavinia and the gentlemen next to her miniature coach and pair of ponies. The caption states that it was a gift to her from Queen Victoria, and had been made in Dublin, Ireland, at a cost of $1000.
M. Lavinia Warren was a well known entertainer, whose career spanned the 1860s to the early 1900s. She was born Mercy Lavinia Warren Bump on October 31, 1841, in Massachusetts. She married fellow entertainer Charles S. Stratton on February 10, 1863, and following his death in 1883, she married an Italian entertainer of a similar stature, Count Primo Magri, on April 6, 1885. Warren was a schoolteacher originally but soon began her performance career on a river boat at a time when exhibiting people with dwarfism was profitable. Warren signed with showman P. T. Barnum at age 21, along with her younger sister Minnie (Huldah) Warren, who also had dwarfism. After her marriage to Stratton the two toured the country and around the world giving performances, becoming America's first international celebrity couple. During Warren's second marriage, she and her husband also toured for many years and later operated a roadside stand in Middleboro, Massachusetts, her birthplace. Lavinia Warren Stratton Magri died on November 25, 1919, and was buried beside Stratton at Mountain Grove Cemetery in Bridgeport, Connecticut.
M. Lavinia Warren was a well known entertainer, whose career spanned the 1860s to the early 1900s. She was born Mercy Lavinia Warren Bump on October 31, 1841, in Massachusetts. She married fellow entertainer Charles S. Stratton on February 10, 1863, and following his death in 1883, she married an Italian entertainer of a similar stature, Count Primo Magri, on April 6, 1885. Warren was a schoolteacher originally but soon began her performance career on a river boat at a time when exhibiting people with dwarfism was profitable. Warren signed with showman P. T. Barnum at age 21, along with her younger sister Minnie (Huldah) Warren, who also had dwarfism. After her marriage to Stratton the two toured the country and around the world giving performances, becoming America's first international celebrity couple. During Warren's second marriage, she and her husband also toured for many years and later operated a roadside stand in Middleboro, Massachusetts, her birthplace. Lavinia Warren Stratton Magri died on November 25, 1919, and was buried beside Stratton at Mountain Grove Cemetery in Bridgeport, Connecticut.
T 2016.025.001