Barnum's American Museum

Event Information

Venue(s):
Barnum's American Museum [JAN 1842-JUL 1865]

Proprietor / Lessee:
Phineas Taylor Barnum

Price: $.25; .15 children under 10

Event Type:
Variety / Vaudeville

Record Information

Status:
Published

Last Updated:
11 March 2011

Performance Date(s) and Time(s)

01 Jan 1864, All Day

Program Details



10:00am to midnight

Performers and/or Works Performed

Citations

1)
Advertisement: New-York Times, 28 December 1863, 7.
“Between the acts of the drama, HERR ZIROM, from the principal concert-rooms of Europe, GIVES HIS WONDERFUL PERFORMANCE on the EMMELYNKA, or MOUTH HARMONICA.”
2)
Advertisement: New York Herald, 01 January 1864, 7.

3)
Advertisement: New-York Times, 01 January 1864, 7.
Valentine and Orson was “prepared expressly for the occasion. . . . NO MORE DEADHEADS!  POSITIVELY NO FREE ADMISSION UNDER ANY PRETENCE.”
4)
Announcement: New-Yorker Staats-Zeitung und Herold, 01 January 1864.