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Title
Tom
Thumb
Wedding
Subject
Weddings
Time Period
1920s
Place
Dublin
(Ohio)
;
Franklin
County
(Ohio)
;
Washington
Township
(Ohio)
Description
The "
wedding
party
" and
guests
for a
Tom
Thumb
wedding
at the
Dublin
Community
Church
United
Church
of
Christ
.
True
to a
real
wedding
, the
wedding
party
pauses
for a
group
photo
on the
steps
of the
church
with the
children
representing
"
bride
and
groom
" in
front
of those as "
best
man
and
maiden
on
honor
" a
few
steps
behind
.
One
boy
is
dressed
apparently
in the
role
of
minister
. A
pencil
line
connects
him to the
name
in the
margin
, "
Marlin
Leppert
".
Another
boy
,
even
younger
,
is
identified
as "
Chas
.
Coffman
". From "
Answers.com
" what
is
a
Tom
Thumb
wedding
? A "
Tom
Thumb
wedding
program
"
probably
refers
to a
wedding
pageant
in
which
all
major
wedding
roles
are
played
by
small
children
,
usually
under
ten
years
old
. In a
Tom
Thumb
wedding
, there would be
children
assigned
to
portray
the
bride
,
groom
,
attendants
, and
sometimes
the
minister
.
Smaller
children
would
sometimes
play
the
flower
girls
and
ring
bearers
.
Everyone
would be
costumed
, and there would
usually
be
many
photographs
.
Staging
a
Tom
Thumb
wedding
was a
big
American
fad
during
the
1920s
, but they were also
staged
fairly
regularly
until
the
1970s
,
often
as
fundraisers
for
schools
or
churches
. The
term
"
Tom
Thumb
wedding
"
comes
from an
actual
wedding
, the
marriage
of the
famous
little
person
General
Tom
Thumb
(born
Charles
Stratton)
to
Lavinia
Warren
,
another
little
person
, in
1863
. The
wedding
attracted
considerable
publicity
and was a
major
event
of the
time
.
Tom
Thumb
was a
celebrity
promoted
by the
circus
entrepreneur
P.T
.
Barnum
,
who
gave
him a
stage
name
inspired
by the
folk
hero
Tom
Thumb
and
managed
his
career
starting
at an
early
age
.
Creator
Unknown
Date of Original
Unknown
Collection
Dublin
Memories
Digital
Collection
;
Gift
from
Mildred
Loomis
Allen
Source
Dublin
Historical
Society
Submitting Institution
Dublin
Historical
Society
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Image Height
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Image Width
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Date created
2012-10-26
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