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:
15 May 2025

Performance Date(s) and Time(s)

08 Jun 1874, Evening
08 Jun 1874, Afternoon
09 Jun 1874, Evening
09 Jun 1874, Afternoon
10 Jun 1874, Evening
10 Jun 1874, Afternoon
11 Jun 1874, Evening
11 Jun 1874, Afternoon
12 Jun 1874, Evening
12 Jun 1874, Afternoon
13 Jun 1874, Evening
13 Jun 1874, Afternoon

Performers and/or Works Performed

1)
LIST OF PERFORMER(S)/ORGANIZATION(S)
Participants:  Barnum's Museum, Menagerie and Circus;  Mlle. [high wire performer] Victoria
2)
Congress of nations

Citations

1)
Advertisement: New-York Times, 07 June 1874, 11.

Congress of Nations, grand pageant, given at 2:30 and 8 pm.

2)
Review: New-York Times, 11 June 1874, 5.

Brief; no mention of music. 

3)
Review: New York Sun, 12 June 1874, 3.

Improvements in the Congress of Nations; no mention of music. 

4)
Review: New York Clipper, 20 June 1874, 94.

Salient features of the show.