Event Information

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

Proprietor / Lessee:
Phineas Taylor Barnum

Price: $1.50 grand orchestra; $1 orchestra; $.50 family circle

Event Type:
Band

Record Information

Status:
Published

Last Updated:
15 December 2025

Performance Date(s) and Time(s)

02 Nov 1874, 2:00 PM
02 Nov 1874, 8:00 PM
03 Nov 1874, 2:00 PM
03 Nov 1874, 8:00 PM
04 Nov 1874, 2:00 PM
04 Nov 1874, 8:00 PM
05 Nov 1874, 2:00 PM
05 Nov 1874, 8:00 PM
06 Nov 1874, 2:00 PM
06 Nov 1874, 8:00 PM
07 Nov 1874, 2:00 PM
07 Nov 1874, 8:00 PM

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
3)
Indian life, a chase for a wife
4)
Donnybrook Fair

Citations

1)
Advertisement: New-York Times, 01 November 1874, 11.

Grand opening Monday night; races, rare wild beasts, Museum of wonders, novelties beyond enumeration. 

2)
Review: New York Herald, 03 November 1874, 10.

Brief; no mention of music. 

3)
Advertisement: New-Yorker Staats-Zeitung und Herold, 04 November 1874, 6.
4)
Review: New-York Times, 05 November 1874, 4.

Improvements in the Hippodrome effected by the management; no mention of music.

5)
Review: New-York Times, 08 November 1874, 6.

Brief; no mention of music. 

6)
Review: New York Clipper, 14 November 1874, 262.

No mention of music.