Event Information

Venue(s):
P.T. Barnum's Hippodrome

Proprietor / Lessee:
Phineas Taylor Barnum

Price: $1 orchestra; $.75 balcony; $.50 family circle; $.25 gallery; $6 private box

Event Type:
Band

Record Information

Status:
Published

Last Updated:
11 May 2025

Performance Date(s) and Time(s)

18 May 1874, Evening
18 May 1874, Afternoon
19 May 1874, Evening
19 May 1874, Afternoon
20 May 1874, Evening
20 May 1874, Afternoon
21 May 1874, Evening
21 May 1874, Afternoon
22 May 1874, Evening
22 May 1874, Afternoon
23 May 1874, Evening
23 May 1874, Afternoon

Performers and/or Works Performed

1)
LIST OF PERFORMER(S)/ORGANIZATION(S)
Participants:  Barnum's Museum, Menagerie and Circus
2)
Congress of nations

Citations

1)
Advertisement: New-York Times, 17 May 1874, 11.

Congress of Nations, grand pageant, given at 2:30 and 8 pm. Includes extensive list of quotes from various reviews.

2)
Review: New York Post, 19 May 1874, 2.

No mention of music. 

3)
Review: New York Clipper, 30 May 1874, 70.

No mention of music. 

4)
Announcement: New York Clipper, 30 May 1874, 70.

Biographical details regarding Orange H. Stevens, who is to impersonate the first emperor of the French in the Congress of Nations.