Major Lee

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Major Lee is represented by two incredible postcards advertising his act as "The World's Only Living Billikin." A Billikin (known as Billiken-san in Japan) is a Japanese good luck figure.

Other than a performance with Mack's Indoor Circus, a traveling vaudeville show, in 1916, Lee is otherwise wholly unknown. The show featured "a museum of living wonders, with Major Lee, "the smallest midget alive as the star feature."