Matinee Benefit in Aid of the Suffering People of Chicago

Event Information

Venue(s):
Academy of Music

Price: $1

Event Type:
Variety / Vaudeville

Record Information

Status:
Published

Last Updated:
16 October 2023

Performance Date(s) and Time(s)

26 Oct 1871, 2:00 PM

Program Details

See also separate event entry of 10/13/71: Articles on benefit entertainments for victims of the Chicago fire.

Citations

1)
Advertisement: New York Herald, 22 October 1871, 8.

Sponsored by the Benevolent and Protective Order of Elks. “Three hundred volunteer performers. The combined minstrel bands of New York and Philadelphia.”