Mr. and Mrs. Reed Mr. & Mrs. Reed carte de visite, 4 x 2.5 inches, circa 1875 signed in pencil on the obverse “Mr. & Mrs. Reed”, and on the reverse, stamped with photographer’s logo and signed in pencil “Mr. & Mrs. Reed 26 years/33 inch… 34 lbs” photographer: Lord’s Gallery, R. S. Reynolds, Successor, 164 Chatham Street, New York In this photograph a very pretty dwarf lady poses with her husband. I don’t know anything more about this couple, but I presume the inclusion of Mr. Reed in this portrait was partly for the sake of scale and partly to demonstrate that despite her stature Mrs. Reed had found love with a normal-sized man — as if such a state of affairs was/is all that unusual. All Images and Text © James G. Mundie 2003 - 2010