POSITIVELY ONE DAY ONLY! / PARK HALL, BATH, / MONDAY, MAY 11th, 1868. / 2 LEVEES AT 3 and 8 P.M. / THE ORGAN USED AT THESE ENTERTAINMENTS IS KINDLY FURNISHED BY C. / W. BELL, DEALER IN MUSICAL INSTRUMENTS AND HOUSEHOLD FURNITURE, ARCADE FUR- / NITURE STORE, BATH, N.Y. / ...RETURN FROM EUROPE ... GENERAL TOM THUMB, / AND HIS CELEBRATED / LITTLE WIFE ... COMMODORE NUTT, / THE FAMOUS $30,000 NUTT, AND THE INFINITESIMAL / MINNIE WARREN, / OF FAIRY PROPORTIONS. / A married couple, a Bachelor and Belle, all Four weighing a trifle / over 100 pounds. / [followed by eight paragraphs of text describing performances for the evening, terms of admission, etc.]

NY: Wynkoop & Hallenbeck, Printers, 1868. Broadside, 12 1/4 x 4 inches, employing several sizes and styles of type. Gen. Tom Thumb and his colleagues had just returned to the United States, following a three year tour of Europe "where they appeared before nearly all the Kings, Queens, Emperors, and Nobility of the Old World!" Sylvester Bleecker, Tom Thumb's publicity manager and a writer of vaudeville sketches, used this general format for other broadsides advertising the troupe's return tour, adapting the printing to the respective performances, city to city. This broadside (for Bath, New York) apparently unrecorded on OCLC (which does locate a similar broadside, at the State Library of Pennsylvania, for a Harrisburg, Pennsylvania, performance, and another at the Clements Library for a performance in Ann Arbor, Michigan). Very good. Old fold lines, some creasing at the edges. (7161). (Inventory #: 59519)