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1073: Lya Graf. Immortalized in a Photo in Which She is Sitting on JP Morgan’s Lap. Born: c.1901-1913, Germany. Died: 1941, Auschwitz Concentration Camp (Present-day Oswiecim, Poland) Original Name: Lia Schwartz. Lya was born with a form of dwarfism. She was twenty-seven inches tall and wanted no part of being in the photos (which took place ...
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J. P. Morgan Jr. was testifying before the Senate Banking Committee when a man placed a circus midget, Lya Graf, onto his lap. The U.S. Senate warned that any newspapers that printed the photo risked being excluded from future Senate hearings.
At a break in the hearings, a Ringling Bros. press agent barged into the room, accompanied by a performer named Lya Graf, just 21 inches tall. “Gangway,” the agent shouted, “the smallest ...
Mar 31, 2017 · Lia Schwartz, a German-born and a person of short stature, performed as the midget Lya Graf in the famous US circus, Ringling and Barnum & Bailey. Graf became famous in June 1933 when, during a…
Apr 6, 2003 · The reason Lya Graf came to the Senate that day has been lost to history. Her employer, the Ringling Brothers and Barnum & Bailey Circus, was in town, but Graf had no obvious reason to make her ...
Lya Graf. In this famed, often reproduced 1933 image we have both pathos and true sadness. J.P. Morgan was taken aback when tiny Lya Graf with Ringling Brothers and Barnum & Bailey Circus was put on his lap by circus press agent, Charles Leef during a break in hearings of a 1933 Senate Banking and Currency Committee. Morgan had been summoned to ...
THE LIGHTER SIDE OF FINANCE…Before being grilled by Senate counsel Ferdinand Pecora at a June 1, 1933 banking hearing, J.P. Morgan Jr was paid a surprise visit by Lya Graf, a Barnum & Bailey circus dwarf. At right, Pecora, circa 1933. Sadly, Graf, who was German, perished in a concentration camp after she returned to her homeland in 1935.
