This brown leather photograph album designed to hold cartes de visite is known as the Fairy Wedding Album. It was given to M. Lavinia Warren by the E. and H.T. Anthony photography firm upon Warren's marriage to Charles S. Stratton, better known as General Tom Thumb. Their wedding, known as the Fairy Wedding, was held on February 10, 1863 and saw them showered with gifts from various up-scale manufacturers, including Tiffany and Company who gave Charles and Lavinia a silver coach. On the cover of the album are raised elements, featuring four stones in each corner, and embossed gold flourishes on other raised elements. In the center of the cover is another raised element that reads 'Presented to The Fairy Bride by Her Friends E. and H.T. Anthony.' The end papers in the front and back of the book feature an interlocking knot design in alternate purple and green, textured to look like fur. They stand out over a light purple and white stripe pattern. This album has two clasps. The cartes de visite within, small mounted photographs on heavy cardstock that measure about 2.5 inches by 4 inches, were likely collected by Lavinia herself, as they show her husband and her after their wedding in 1863, including a single image of Lavinia in mourning wear, likely taken around the time her sister Minnie died in 1878. Some of the photographs are hand colored as well. The first page of the album has the wedding invitation to Lavinia's second marriage to Count Primo Magri, held on April 6, 1885, held at the Church of the Holy Trinity on 42nd Street and Madison Avenue in New York City. The album also features an index printed in blue and gold ink, offering a way to list the numbers of the various cartes de visite within. The back cover features the same design and raised elements as the front, but without any text. The spine, also with embossed gold details, simply reads 'Album.' From the side, the bookblock is shown as not having gilded edges, but displaying a design of flowers and a harp on the top and bottom. The longest edge of the bookblock also features gilded edging that reads 'Lavinia Warren S. Stratton', her new married name. Besides photographs of her husband and herself, the Fairy Wedding album contains photographs of George Washington Morrison Nutt (Commodore Nutt, a fellow performer), Minnie Warren (Lavinia's sister and fellow performer), a photograph of Lavinia's and Minnie's mother, and a number of other performers associated with P.T. Barnum over the years. This includes fellow little people like Leopold S. Kahn (Admiral Dot), Hiram W. and Barney Davis (the Wild Men of Borneo), but also fat women, giants, P.T. Barnum himself, and unknown performers and managers whose names are not known as of time of this writing. It is impossible to determine precisely when Lavinia assembled this album, but the lack of any mention of her second husband, Primo Magri, beyond an invitation to their 1885 wedding suggests that the focus was meant to be on her career prior to said marriage.
