Barnum’s American Museum

Event Information

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

Price: $.30; .15 children under ten

Event Type:
Variety / Vaudeville

Record Information

Status:
Published

Last Updated:
20 July 2012

Performance Date(s) and Time(s)

12 Dec 1864, All Day

Program Details

Panorama, Indians and a song at 11 a.m.; Deborah at 3 p.m.; Martin, the Privateer and comic dance by Denier at 7:30 p.m. The O-Ke-Na-Wa-Kas tribe of Indians represented their “habits, customs, war dances, etc.”

11a.m., 3 p.m., and 7:30 p.m. daily.

Performers and/or Works Performed

1)
LIST OF PERFORMER(S)/ORGANIZATION(S)
Participants:  O-Ke-Na-Wa-Ka Tribe of Indians ;  Tony Denier;  William B. [comic singer] Harrison;   Ned the Learned Musical Seal
2)
Song, unidentified
aka New song
Composer(s): Unknown composer
3)
Martin, the privateer
4)
Deborah; or, The Jewish maiden’s wrongs
5)
Comic dance
Participants:  Tony Denier

Citations

1)
Announcement: New York Herald, 12 December 1864, 4.

      Listed in “Amusements This Evening.”

2)
Advertisement: New York Herald, 12 December 1864, 7.

      Harrison’s songs “‘hits at the times and things.’”

3)
Announcement: New-York Times, 12 December 1864, 5.

4)
Advertisement: New-York Times, 12 December 1864, 7.