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:
22 May 2025

Performance Date(s) and Time(s)

27 Jul 1874, Afternoon
27 Jul 1874, Evening
28 Jul 1874, Evening
28 Jul 1874, Afternoon
29 Jul 1874, Evening
29 Jul 1874, Afternoon
30 Jul 1874, Evening
30 Jul 1874, Afternoon
31 Jul 1874, Evening
31 Jul 1874, Afternoon
01 Aug 1874, Evening
01 Aug 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

Citations

1)
Advertisement: New-York Times, 27 July 1874, 7.

“Positively last week.” Balloon ascensions on Tuesday and Friday afternoons by Prof. W. H. Donaldson; pedestrian walk by Payne.

2)
Review: New York Clipper, 08 August 1874, 150.

Close for the season on August 1. Payne’s failure to accomplish the pedestrian walk of 115 miles in 24 hours; Donaldson’s balloon ascensions.