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:
16 May 2025

Performance Date(s) and Time(s)

15 Jun 1874, Evening
15 Jun 1874, Afternoon
16 Jun 1874, Evening
16 Jun 1874, Afternoon
17 Jun 1874, Evening
17 Jun 1874, Afternoon
18 Jun 1874, Evening
18 Jun 1874, Afternoon
19 Jun 1874, Evening
19 Jun 1874, Afternoon
20 Jun 1874, Evening
20 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, 14 June 1874, 11.

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

2)
Announcement: New York Post, 17 June 1874, 2.

Forthcoming amateur athletic games. 

3)
Review: New York Clipper, 27 June 1874, 102.

Addition of a monster black rhinoceros to the menagerie. Serious bruises sustained by Miss Lewis, one of the chariot racers. Reported in a later paragraph: death of elephant trainer Frank Dooley (age 28), from injuries sustained after being thrown from an elephant on May 18.

4)
Announcement: New York Clipper, 27 June 1874, 102.

Marriage of Mary Mason, intrepid rider, to George D. Woodill, cornetist; serenade by the full band following the ceremony.