Tom Thumb and the Age of Celebrity

By Eric Lehman (c) Connecticut Explored Inc. SPRING 2015 Subscribe/Buy the Issue! In 1838 Louis Daguerre created the first photograph of a human being. Samuel Morse first demonstrated the telegraph. Railroads were booming across the United States, mass production of newspapers had just become possible, and the first steamship purposely built to cross the Atlantic … Continue reading Tom Thumb and the Age of Celebrity