Event Information

Venue(s):
Empire Skating Rink

Price: $.50; $.25 children under nine

Record Information

Status:
Published

Last Updated:
3 March 2025

Performance Date(s) and Time(s)

26 Nov 1873, All Day
27 Nov 1873, All Day
28 Nov 1873, All Day
29 Nov 1873, All Day

Program Details

Daily performances at 2pm and 8pm (but only at 8pm on Wednesday).

Also billed as “Barnum’s Museum, Menagerie, and Circus.”

Performers and/or Works Performed

1)
LIST OF PERFORMER(S)/ORGANIZATION(S)
Participants:  Barnum's Museum, Menagerie and Circus

Citations

1)
Advertisement: New-York Times, 23 November 1873, 7.
2)
Advertisement: New York Herald, 23 November 1873, 4.
3)
Announcement: New-York Daily Tribune, 26 November 1873, 4.

“…It consists, as before, of menagerie, museum, and circus. The Rink Building will accommodate 8,000 people, and we are told that it will be suitably heated and ventilated.”