Admiral Dot : thirteen years old; twenty-five inches high. Weighs only fifteen pounds.

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[1872?]
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Admiral Dot : thirteen years old; twenty-five inches high. Weighs only fifteen pounds. Public Domain Mark. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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Souvenir card with a photograph stuck on to it showing Admiral Dot standing next to a fully grown man. The card would probably have been sold as a souvenir at places where he was exhibited as part of a freak or variety show. Admiral Dot was born Leopold S. Kahn in 1859, performed for Phineas Taylor Barnum and died of influenza in 1918.

Publication/Creation

New York : E.& H. Anthony & Co., [1872?]

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1 sheet : illustrations, portrait ; 11 cm

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