Colton's Laughing Gas Exhibition

Event Information

Venue(s):
Cooper Institute

Price: Evening: .25; .15 children. Afternoon: .10 ladies; .05 children

Event Type:
Variety / Vaudeville

Performance Forces:
Vocal

Record Information

Status:
Published

Last Updated:
28 March 2011

Performance Date(s) and Time(s)

11 Apr 1863, 3:00 PM
11 Apr 1863, 7:45 PM

Program Details



Performers and/or Works Performed

1)
LIST OF PERFORMER(S)/ORGANIZATION(S)
Participants:  Father Reed's Old Folks;  Hannah L. Searles;  Anna L. Goodall;  G. R. Cromwell;  William P. Grier [minstrel];  George Washington Morrison Nutt;  William B. [comic singer] Harrison

Citations

1)
Advertisement: New York Herald, 10 April 1863, 7.

2)
Advertisement: New-York Times, 10 April 1863, 7.
“In the afternoon, Father Reed’s ‘Old Folks’ will give a Grand Concert for 45 minutes. . . . In the evening, the ‘Old Folks’ will give another concert. . . . Mr. W.B. Harrison, the extemporaneous singer and poet.”
3)
Advertisement: New-York Times, 11 April 1863, 7.

4)
Announcement: New York Post, 11 April 1863, 2.