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:
19 May 2025

Performance Date(s) and Time(s)

06 Jul 1874, Evening
06 Jul 1874, Afternoon
07 Jul 1874, Evening
07 Jul 1874, Afternoon
08 Jul 1874, Evening
08 Jul 1874, Afternoon
09 Jul 1874, Evening
09 Jul 1874, Afternoon
10 Jul 1874, Evening
10 Jul 1874, Afternoon
11 Jul 1874, Evening
11 Jul 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, 05 July 1874, 4.

Congress of Nations, grand pageant, given at 2:30 and 8 pm. Derby week; letter carriers’ walk every evening; balloon ascensions on Tuesday and Friday by Prof. W. H. Donaldson.

2)
Review: New York Clipper, 18 July 1874, 126.

Balloon ascensions and the letter carriers’ walk. The Hippodrome to be altered to permit winter performance when the show closes early in August.