Photograph: M. Lavinia Warren and the Magris outside of a tour carriage with Major James Doyle

Photograph of M. Lavinia Warren with Primo and Ernesto Magri, from the 1890s. This is a newspaper reproduction on cardboard. The photograph and article blurb about the tour of M. Lavinia Warren and her husband Primo Magri touring New England. The photograph features a custom built carriage being pulled by two small horses. The driver is Major James Doyle. Ernesto Magri stands on the far left, wearing a top hat and holding a cane. Beside him is Primo Magri in a bowler hat, and Lavinia wearing a dark dress and flowers in her hat. Mercy Lavinia Warren nee Bump (October 31, 1841-November 25, 1919), then Mercy Lavinia Magri, was a well known entertainer during the 1800s. She began her show business career on a river boat, as exhibiting those with dwarfism was profitable at the time. Warren signed with P.T. Barnum at age 21, along with her younger sister Minnie Warren, who also had dwarfism. Later on, Lavinia began to date fellow Barnum performer Charles S. Stratton (General Tom Thumb), and the two eventually wed. They worked and toured together as celebrities, and had a happy marriage. Following Stratton's death, Warren married Primo Magri, an Italian entertainer of a similar stature to Warren, on April 6, 1885. Magri and Warren operated a roadside stand in Middleboro, Mass. Warren died on November 25, 1919, and is buried besides Stratton at Mountain Grove Cemetery. ND, photographer not named. Measures 4.5 by 6.75 inches.