Event Information

Venue(s):
P.T. Barnum's Hippodrome

Proprietor / Lessee:
Phineas Taylor Barnum

Price: $.30; $.15 children

Event Type:
Band

Record Information

Status:
Published

Last Updated:
20 June 2025

Performance Date(s) and Time(s)

25 Jan 1875, 2:30 PM
25 Jan 1875, 8:00 PM
26 Jan 1875, 2:30 PM
26 Jan 1875, 8:00 PM
27 Jan 1875, 2:30 PM
27 Jan 1875, 8:00 PM
28 Jan 1875, 2:30 PM
28 Jan 1875, 8:00 PM
29 Jan 1875, 2:30 PM
29 Jan 1875, 8:00 PM
30 Jan 1875, 2:30 PM
30 Jan 1875, 8:00 PM

Performers and/or Works Performed

1)
LIST OF PERFORMER(S)/ORGANIZATION(S)
Participants:  Barnum's Museum, Menagerie and Circus
2)
Knightly tournament in New York

Citations

1)
Announcement: New-York Times, 24 January 1875, 7.
2)
Advertisement: New-York Times, 24 January 1875, 11.

Scene listing and description for Knightly Tournament in New-York; given at night only, Monday, Wednesday, Thursday, and Saturday.

3)
Advertisement: New-Yorker Staats-Zeitung und Herold, 25 January 1875, 6.
4)
Review: New York Sun, 26 January 1875, 2.

No mention of music. 

5)
Review: New York Post, 26 January 1875, 2.

No mention of music. 

6)
Article: New York Herald, 28 January 1875, 10.
7)
Review: New York Clipper, 06 February 1875, 358.

“The trotting contests and the tournament scene at the Hippodrome have attracted very large audiences during the past week…”