Barnum’s American Museum

Event Information

Venue(s):
Barnum's American Museum [JAN 1842-JUL 1865]

Price: $.25; .15 children under ten

Event Type:
Play With Music, Variety / Vaudeville

Record Information

Status:
Published

Last Updated:
2 October 2010

Performance Date(s) and Time(s)

23 Mar 1863, All Day
24 Mar 1863, All Day
25 Mar 1863, All Day
26 Mar 1863, All Day
27 Mar 1863, All Day
28 Mar 1863, All Day

Program Details

Every day 3 pm and 7:30 pm and Sat also at 1:30 pm

Performers and/or Works Performed

Citations

1)
Advertisement: New-York Times, 22 March 1863, 7.
“NEW MILITARY DRAMA, with splendid scenery, music and mechanism, entitled THE ROLL OF THE DRUM. . . . Mr. Harrison, Comic Impromptu Singer, appears at each performance in his inimitable songs.  Master Robert Henry Hendershot, Hero Drummer-Boy . . . The Learned Seal, Ned!  Which plays tunes upon a musical instrument!”
2)
Announcement: New York Herald, 23 March 1863, 5.

3)
Advertisement: New York Herald, 23 March 1863, 7.

4)
Advertisement: New-York Times, 23 March 1863, 7.

5)
Advertisement: New-York Times, 27 March 1863, 7.
 “A SEAL PLAYING THE ORGAN.”
 
6)
Advertisement: New York Herald, 28 March 1863, 7.