Barnum’s American Museum

Event Information

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

Event Type:
Variety / Vaudeville

Record Information

Status:
Published

Last Updated:
30 July 2011

Performance Date(s) and Time(s)

13 Jun 1864, All Day
14 Jun 1864, All Day
15 Jun 1864, All Day
16 Jun 1864, All Day
17 Jun 1864, All Day
18 Jun 1864, All Day

Program Details

3 p.m. and 7:30 p.m. MON-SAT

The cast included "Juvenile Negro Minstrels" [WED only] and an unidentified comic singer.


Ads no longer mention Harrison, but he is mentioned in the NYT Amusements This Evening section.

Performers and/or Works Performed

1)
LIST OF PERFORMER(S)/ORGANIZATION(S)
Participants:  Augusta Walby;  Louise Walby;   Ned the Learned Musical Seal;   Tyrolean Whistler, The;  Mlle. Ernestine;  William B. [comic singer] Harrison
2)
Norah Creina
Text Author: Stirling
3)
Boots at the swan
Text Author: Selby

Citations

1)
Advertisement: New York Herald, 14 June 1864.
“MLLE. ERNESTEIN, the beautiful and graceful Danseuse, and Mlle. Louise and Miss Walby in NEW AND ELEGANT DANCES.”
2)
Advertisement: New-York Times, 14 June 1864, 7.

3)
Advertisement: New York Herald, 15 June 1864.
“MLLE. ERNESTEIN and MLLE. LOUISE in NEW AND ELEGANT DANCES. . . . THIS (WEDNESDAY) AFTERNOON, FIRST AND ONLY APPEARANCE OF THE JUVENILE NEGRO MINSTRELS.”
4)
Announcement: New-York Times, 15 June 1864, 4.
In “Amusements this Evening” section.  “Harrison, Comic Singer and Tyrolean Whistler, at 3 and 7 ½ P.M.”
5)
Advertisement: New-York Times, 15 June 1864, 7.
“THIS WEDNESDAY AFTERNOON, THE FIRST AND ONLY APPEARANCE OF THE JUVENILE NEGRO MINSTRELS, to be seen at all hours.”