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:
21 May 2025

Performance Date(s) and Time(s)

20 Jul 1874, Evening
20 Jul 1874, Afternoon
21 Jul 1874, Evening
21 Jul 1874, Afternoon
22 Jul 1874, Evening
22 Jul 1874, Afternoon
23 Jul 1874, Evening
23 Jul 1874, Afternoon
24 Jul 1874, Evening
24 Jul 1874, Afternoon
25 Jul 1874, Evening
25 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, 19 July 1874, 7.

Congress of Nations, grand pageant, given at 2:30 and 8 pm. Balloon ascensions on Tuesday and Friday afternoons by Prof. W. H. Donaldson; Edward Mullen’s feat of walking 500 miles in six consecutive days.

2)
Review: New York Sun, 21 July 1874, 1.

Edward Mullens’s 500-mile walk in six days; Donaldson’s balloon ascensions.

3)
Review: New York Clipper, 01 August 1874, 142.

Mullen’s pedestrian feat, which he had to abandon after the July 23 matinee because of a previous injury; Donaldson’s balloon ascensions and final descent near Saratoga, a journey of about 400 miles in 25 hours.