Hans and Gretel: the smallest people on Earth

Hans and Gretel: the smallest people on Earth

Collection:
Images from the History of Medicine (IHM)
Contributor(s):
Zwerdling, Michael, former owner
Publication:
[United States] : [publisher not identified], [between 1922 and 1923]
Language(s):
English
Format:
Still image
Subject(s):
Military Personnel
Nurses
Dwarfism
Earles, Grace, 1899-1970.
Earles, Harry.
Genre(s):
Postcard
Abstract:
Black and white photograph of little people "Hans" and "Gretel", i.e. Harry Doll Earles and Grace Doll Earles, popular sibling performers in circuses and sideshows in the United States between 1910 and the mid-1950s. He is dressed in a soldier's uniform and is saluting with his right hand. She is dressed as a Red Cross nurse in a white uniform, resting her right arm on her brother's shoulder, her left hand on her hip. Below them it says: "Hans and Gretel, the smallest people on Earth. Hans 21 years - Gretel 23 years."
Copyright:
This item may be under copyright protection; contact the copyright owner for permission before re-use.
Extent:
1 postcard : 14 x 9 cm
Provenance:
Purchase; Michael Zwerdling; 2004; 04-22.
Technique:
black and white
NLM Unique ID:
101693811 (See catalog record)
OCLC no.:
969771784
Permanent Link:
http://resource.nlm.nih.gov/101693811