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Study Guide: Activities and Procedures


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Section 1 -


Background Essay: Public Amusements In An Era Of An Emerging Middle Class


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Section 2 -


Background Essay: What Was A Museum In Antebellum America?


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Section 3 -


Background Essay: A Typology Of Freak Shows


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Section 7 -


Annotated & Abridged Document:
Sketch Of The Life, Personal Appearance, Character And Manners Of Charles S. Stratton, The Man In Miniature, Known As General Tom Thumb, And His Wife, Lavinia Warren Stratton; Including The History Of Their Courtship And Marriage, With Some Account Of Remarkable Dwarfs, Giants, & Other Human Phenomena, Of Ancient And Modern Times, And Songs Given At Their Public Levees


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Section 8 -


Annotated & Abridged Document:
"What Is It?" Advertisement


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Section 9 -


Annotated & Abridged Document:
Mrs. Tom Thumb's Autobiography


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Section 10 -


Annotated & Abridged Document:
Memoir Of Eventful Expedition In Central America; Resulting In The Discovery Of The Idolatrous City Of Iximaya, In An Unexplored Region; And The Possession Of Two Remarkable Aztec Children


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Section 11 -


Annotated & Abridged Document:
Letter From Mark Twain


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Section 12 -


Annotated & Abridged Document:
Circus And Museum Freaks -- Curiosities Of Pathology

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