Charles Sherwood Stratton
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T. Barnum and introduced to the public as \u00e2\u0080\u009cGen. Tom Thumb\u00e2\u0080\u009d in 1842. Stratton had ceased growing before his first birthday and stood just twenty-five inches tall when Barnum discovered him. The wily showman proceeded to add seven years to the boy\u00e2\u0080\u0099s age and marketed him as a recent arrival from Europe. Transformed under Barnum\u00e2\u0080\u0099s tutelage, Stratton emerged as a phenomenally popular entertainer who sang, danced, and performed a variety of costumed roles. The long-lived and amiable partnership that followed generated substantial fortunes for both Stratton and the \u00e2\u0080\u009cPrince of Humbug.\u00e2\u0080\u009d"}, {"label": "Exhibition Label", "content": "Charles Stratton\u00e2\u0080\u0099s popularity continued throughout the 1840s and 50s, but his star had dimmed somewhat by the time he met Lavinia Warren in 1862. Their subsequent courtship and marriage returned Stratton to the spotlight as half of one of the world\u00e2\u0080\u0099s most famous couples."}, {"label": "Exhibition Label", "content": "Nacido en Bridgeport, Connecticut"}, {"label": "Exhibition Label", "content": "Charles Stratton ten\u00c3\u00ada apenas cuatro a\u00c3\u00b1os cuando el empresario teatral P. T. Barnum lo sac\u00c3\u00b3 del anonimato y lo present\u00c3\u00b3 ante el p\u00c3\u00bablico como el \u00e2\u0080\u009cSr. Tom Thumb\u00e2\u0080\u009d en 1842. Stratton hab\u00c3\u00ada dejado de crecer antes de su primer cumplea\u00c3\u00b1os y med\u00c3\u00ada apenas 25 pulgadas (63 cm) cuando Barnum lo descubri\u00c3\u00b3. El astuto empresario procedi\u00c3\u00b3 a sumar siete a\u00c3\u00b1os a la edad del ni\u00c3\u00b1o y a publicitarlo como un reci\u00c3\u00a9n llegado de Europa. Transformado bajo el tutelaje de Barnum, Stratton se convirti\u00c3\u00b3 en un artista fenomenalmente popular que cantaba, bailaba e interpretaba una variedad de papeles con distintos disfraces. La larga y amistosa asociaci\u00c3\u00b3n que le sigui\u00c3\u00b3 gener\u00c3\u00b3 fortunas sustanciales tanto para Stratton como para el \u00e2\u0080\u009cPr\u00c3\u00adncipe de Humbug\u00e2\u0080\u009d."}, {"label": "Exhibition Label", "content": "La popularidad de Charles Stratton se extendi\u00c3\u00b3 durante las d\u00c3\u00a9cadas de 1840 y 1850, pero ya se estaba atenuando hacia la \u00c3\u00a9poca en la que conoci\u00c3\u00b3 a Lavinia Warren en 1862. Su posterior cortejo y matrimonio devolvi\u00c3\u00b3 el estrellato a Stratton, como parte de una de las parejas m\u00c3\u00a1s famosas del mundo."}, {"label": "Collection Description", "content": "The Frederick Hill Meserve Collection comprises more than five thousand Civil War-era portrait negatives from the Mathew Brady photography studio in New York City. The collection, which the National Portrait Gallery acquired in 1981, includes portraits of generals, politicians, diplomats, painters, and performers. It also contains depictions of \u00e2\u0080\u009cHuman Curiosities\u00e2\u0080\u009d at P. T. Barnum\u00e2\u0080\u0099s American Museum in New York City, that, although highly exploitative, help to document the historical representations of disability in the United States."}, {"label": "Collection Description", "content": "La Colecci\u00c3\u00b3n Frederick Hill Meserve contiene m\u00c3\u00a1s de 5,000 negativos de retratos de la \u00c3\u00a9poca de la Guerra Civil provenientes del estudio fotogr\u00c3\u00a1fico de Mathew Brady en la ciudad de Nueva York. Adquirida por la National Portrait Gallery en 1981, la colecci\u00c3\u00b3n incluye retratos de militares, pol\u00c3\u00adticos, diplom\u00c3\u00a1ticos y artistas. Tambi\u00c3\u00a9n contiene im\u00c3\u00a1genes de \u00e2\u0080\u009ccuriosidades humanas\u00e2\u0080\u009d exhibidas en el American Museum de P.T. Barnum en Nueva York. Estas \u00c3\u00baltimas, a pesar de su \u00c3\u00adndole degradante, nos ayudan a documentar la representaci\u00c3\u00b3n hist\u00c3\u00b3rica de las personas discapacitadas en EE.UU."}], "creditLine": [{"label": "Credit Line", "content": "National Portrait Gallery, Smithsonian Institution; Frederick Hill Meserve Collection"}], "name": [{"label": "Attribution", "content": "Mathew Brady Studio, active 1844 - 1894"}, {"label": "Sitter", "content": "Charles Sherwood Stratton, 4 Jan 1838 - 15 Jul 1883"}], "topic": [{"label": "Topic", "content": "Interior"}, {"label": "Topic", "content": "Home Furnishings\\Furniture"}, {"label": "Topic", "content": "Home Furnishings\\Furniture\\Seating\\Chair"}, {"label": "Topic", "content": "Artist's Effects"}, {"label": "Topic", "content": "Architecture\\Column"}, {"label": "Topic", "content": "Home Furnishings\\Curtain"}, {"label": "Topic", "content": "Costume\\Dress Accessory\\Tie\\Bowtie"}, {"label": "Topic", "content": "Charles Sherwood Stratton: Male"}, {"label": "Topic", "content": "Charles Sherwood Stratton: Performing Arts\\Performer"}, {"label": "Topic", "content": "Portrait"}], "place": [{"label": "Place", "content": "United States\\New York\\Kings\\New York"}], "physicalDescription": [{"label": "Medium", "content": "Glass plate collodion negative"}, {"label": "Dimensions", "content": "Plate: 9 \u00c3\u0097 6 \u00c3\u0097 0.3 cm (3 9/16 \u00c3\u0097 2 3/8 \u00c3\u0097 1/8\")"}], "dataSource": [{"label": "Data Source", "content": "National Portrait Gallery"}], "objectRights": [{"label": "Restrictions & Rights", "content": "CC0"}], "objectType": [{"label": "Type", "content": "Photographic Negative"}]}}, "url": "edanmdm:npg_NPG.81.M2178", "hash": "c36574b596c531572387a5ac0002c353342469d4", "docSignature": "2a027f5436a99ff009261fa3a61cc826", "timestamp": 1658327600, "lastTimeUpdated": 1653682038, "title": "Charles Sherwood Stratton"}