Museum Night for the Benefit of the Sanitary Commission and Freedman’s Society

Event Information

Venue(s):
Cooper Institute

Price: $.25; $.15 children under 10

Event Type:
Chamber (includes Solo), Variety / Vaudeville

Performance Forces:
Instrumental

Record Information

Status:
Published

Last Updated:
3 October 2014

Performance Date(s) and Time(s)

27 Jan 1864, 8:00 PM

Program Details

Barnum offered a lecture titled "The art of money-getting."

Performers and/or Works Performed

1)
LIST OF PERFORMER(S)/ORGANIZATION(S)
Participants:  Herr Zirom;  Phineas Taylor Barnum;   Tyrolean Whistler, The

Citations

1)
Advertisement: New-York Times, 24 January 1864, 7.
“The entire gross receipts handed to the Treasurer of the U.S. Sanitary Commission: one-half to be devoted to its forthcoming great Metropolitan Fair in New-York, and the other half to the National Freedman’s Society.”
2)
Advertisement: New York Herald, 25 January 1864, 3.

3)
Announcement: New York Post, 25 January 1864, 2.

4)
Announcement: New-York Times, 25 January 1864, 4.

5)
Announcement: New York Post, 27 January 1864, 2.

6)
Advertisement: New-York Times, 27 January 1864, 7.