Event Information

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

Price: $.25

Event Type:
Variety / Vaudeville

Record Information

Status:
Published

Last Updated:
11 September 2011

Performance Date(s) and Time(s)

04 Jul 1864, All Day
05 Jul 1864, All Day
06 Jul 1864, All Day
07 Jul 1864, All Day
08 Jul 1864, All Day
09 Jul 1864, All Day

Program Details

11 a.m., 3 p.m., 7:45 p.m.

[WED-THU]; Ned, the Musically Educated Seal; Charles E. Collins

Clifford is not featured in advertisements on Monday, July 4, and the newspapers did not publish on Tuesday, July 5, because of the holiday, so it’s impossible to know if he performed that day. Charles E. Collins is listed in “Amusements This Evening” each day this week. He’s not listed, however, in any of the ads.

Performers and/or Works Performed

1)
LIST OF PERFORMER(S)/ORGANIZATION(S)
Participants:  Charles E. Collins;  Mlle. Ernestine;  J. Harry Clifford;   Ned the Learned Musical Seal
2)
"Nationale, La"
Participants:  Mlle. Ernestine
3)
Cure, The
Participants:  Charles E. Collins
4)
Blighted faith; or, The duel at the masquerade

Citations

1)
Advertisement: New York Herald, 03 July 1864.

2)
Advertisement: New-Yorker Staats-Zeitung und Herold, 04 July 1864.

3)
Announcement: New-York Daily Tribune, 04 July 1864.

4)
Advertisement: New-York Times, 04 July 1864.

“Notwithstanding the great number of novelties offered, there will not be an increase on the prices of admission.” 

5)
Announcement: New-York Times, 04 July 1864, 5.

“Barnum always displays his managerial muscle on the 4th of July. . . . [D]rop in there at any moment and you will get far more than your quarter’s worth.”

6)
Announcement: New-York Daily Tribune, 05 July 1864.

7)
Announcement: New York Herald, 05 July 1864.

8)
Advertisement: New-York Times, 06 July 1864.

Announced today for the first time: J.H. Clifford, “the celebrated Ethiopian comedian, in his favorite dances and songs.”

9)
Announcement: New-York Times, 06 July 1864.

10)
Advertisement: New York Herald, 06 July 1864.

“Ernestine in her beautiful Pas Seul, ‘La Nationale,’ and other dances.”

11)
Announcement: New-York Daily Tribune, 07 July 1864, 8.

Detailed description of the ventilating system, which cost $6,000. “The Museum is now, for the first time, thoroughly and completely ventilated in every part.”