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:
5 August 2014

Performance Date(s) and Time(s)

21 Dec 1863, All Day
22 Dec 1863, All Day
23 Dec 1863, All Day
24 Dec 1863, All Day

Program Details



Performers and/or Works Performed

2)
aka Ticket of leave man
Text Author: Taylor [dramatist]

Citations

1)
Advertisement: New York Herald, 21 December 1863.

2)
Announcement: New-York Times, 21 December 1863, 4.
“[T]he ‘Ticket-of-Leave Man,’ a new Giant, a novel musical instrument, a big trout, and a hundred other things more or less dramatic.”
3)
Advertisement: New-York Times, 21 December 1863, 7.
“Kelly’s Automaton Musical Troupe, consisting of six figures, size of life, which play upon novel pianos or harperians, producing music equal to a full orchestra. . . . EDUCATED SEAL, plays a Musical Instrument. . . . HERR ZIROM, from the principal concert-rooms of Europe, GIVES HIS WONDERFUL PERFORMANCE on the Emmelynka, or Mouth Harmonica, DORA DAWRON, in her double-voiced duet.”