Tom Thumb's Museum: Whiston & His Olio of Oddities
Tradecard. Artist's palette shaped diecut featuring Whiston whose characters included the Yankee Phrenologer (in the stove-pipe hat) and Mrs. Partington (in the white bonnet). This is one of a set of six chromolithograph cards produced by Ballin & Liebler in 1882 advertising a tour managed by H.R. Jacobs of a Variety company starring 'General' Tom Thumb,